Tuesday
Jan122010
New GPU Renderer Hits Market
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 10:36AM Reactive Software announces the pending release of OctaneRender, their new fully interactive, unbiased GPU rendering software for CUDA equipped Nvidia video cards. The sample shown above rendered in just 30 seconds using this technology.
Some of Octane's features include:
- Physically based / Spectral Light Transport
- Unbiased and directlighting/ambient occlusion
- QMC sampling and MLT sampling
- instances
- Motion Blur
- Pause/resume render
- Output of render passes, Z-depth map and normal maps
- Alpha channel rendering with real-time UI compositing over images
- support for multiple GPU's
- Image textures incl support for loading over 40 different formats
- HDR, Canon RAW, and OpenEXR HDRI image textures
- Output of HDR and LDR real-time GPU tonemapped images
- Output of raw HDR images (exr, hdr, canon RAW)
- Real-time control of DOF
- Shift lens
- Z clipping
- Interactive focal-length adjustment in user interface
Octane Renderer is available for Windows 32/64, Linux 32/64 and Mac OSX.




Reader Comments (1)
Amazing. Seems like an extremely advanced version of Bunkspeed Hypershot