Nibbler Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 we have new toy to play: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam.h Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) finally! They should have a non-commercial version though. Edited January 11, 2010 by sam.h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Looks like they're going to have a demo though, so that's something . http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeller Samuel Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Hey guys Im coming with more infos from Octane forums Octane gonna be available for Windows, Linux and OSX and in command line versions also Im just quoting Radiance here (Radiance, lead dev at refractive software) Quotes are from various topics Octane is not a 'bedroom operation' by myself, and there are at this time multiple developers working on an animation capable rib pipeline and compositing outputs, as Octane will be used on a few film productions during this year Octane will allow you to use RIB for rendering animations.We're developing a complete rib import pipeline that imports camera, models, transforms, instances, motion blur and materials. It's well under way and will be available in the commercial versions and beta's only in a few weeks Octane will be a fully RiSpec / RenderMan RIB Compliant renderer,but i'd like to have a 2nd option that includes animation and camera support (eg stuff that OBJ does'nt practically support), so i'm going to add either Autodesk FBX (seems to be my choice at the moment) or Collada This is because not all 3d packages offer RIB exporters, quite a few do, but not all of them. When a suitable choice is made, don't expect this to be working next week. You'll have to give me some time to develop it, as i'm currently working on the RIB and Octane Scene file format for loading/saving octane scenes. What do you guys think/prefer? For current votes, Collada is winner If any of you guys wanna help, just register on forum, email refractive software or post topics Im just gonna say that Octane is very promising And its node based kinda like Houdini, so its a good thing ! There's probably gonna be API for writing nodes, support for writing I/O importer/exporters etc... Would be good to have good Houdini users that work in production in Octane forum also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted March 16, 2010 Author Share Posted March 16, 2010 hey it looks like Octane has competitor http://www.randomcontrol.com/arion "The first, hybrid, unbiased.." blah, blah, check it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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