The Otoy team has announced the first stable release of Octane 2023.1, which includes some major improvements: Analytic lights, Composite texture adjustment layers, Output AOV compositor improvements, Fast post media rendering, and more.
Analytic lights
Five new analytic light primitives have been added, including disk, quad, sphere, tube and directional light, which provide a fast approximation of direct light from large direct sources on diffuse or shiny materials. In addition, the disk, sphere, tube and quad lights are similar to the mes lights, but with customized low noise light sampling.
All images are 4 spp
Composite texture adjustment layers
The Composite texture now supports adjustment layers, which can be used to fine-tune the composite at specific points in the layer stack.
Composite texture adjustment layers
Output AOV compositor improvements
The Output AOV nodes have been revamped to be layer-based with a wide selection of effect layers. Many effects have been implemented, such as Blur, Curves and tone mapping solutions.
Output AOV compositor improvements
Fast post media rendering
They've added a post-processing pass to add fog, providing a fast, noise-free way to add fog to an image without rendering a lot of samples. Effects include fog, beams from light sources or sunlight. They also added chromatic aberration, lens flare and blur effects in post.
Chromatic aberration in post
The release also includes other improvements and changes such as animation time transforms, improved accurate rounded edges shader, rendering improvements and fixes, and more.
Octane 2023.1 supports all current NVIDIA GPUs with compute model 3.5 or higher. You should use a NVIDIA Studio driver with version at least 456.38 on Windows or 455.23 on Linux. For macOS, at least 13.3 or preferably newer.
Learn more about OctaneRender 2023.1 here.
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Source: Otoy
