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I'm wondering if a scene of that size and complexity could have been rendered in Octane or not, or whether it would have been too big.  My curiosity stems from the fact that that's about the size and complexity of scenes that I currently top out at (I don't do anything with 100 M4s for example, but it's not terribly unusual for me to have 2 or 3 V4/M4 characters with some lower-poly background people in the shot).  I'm just trying to get an idea of whether a scene like that could easily be done in Octane at the moment.

Hi,

with complex scenes, you could indeed run into problems. The limiting factor at the moment is the number of different textures. (144 color + 68 greyscale). I never hit the video card RAM limit so far with my current graphics card (GTX 680).

So if you either use the same textures, or spend some time tweaking (or use tools like texture atlas) you could go quite far. Without tuning, I usually hit the limits at about 3 or 4 M4s/V4s.

Best regards,

   Michael