erm. Just wanted to point out that Octane gets a mention on the links provided at the start of this conversation. On the last of the links by this person, at this point in time.

 

09-08-2013, 06:16 PM #11

erikals

Lightwave Cop

 

I hope Embree is put into Carrara. Any thing to speed it all up.

 

As to GPU vs CPU. Check out the progress in GPU speed over the last 2 years vs CPU. I am doubling my speed and quadrupling my memory (to 4GB) for slightly more than the card I bought back in 2011. CPU wise I looked at an upgrade and could only get a 30% increase for the same outlay as before (which incidently was 2x the cost of changing my GPU).

 

As to whether Octane will survive, not sure. There are lots of competing unbiased renderers out there. Thea for example, at slightly more cost. There is room for a few pieces of software to survive short to medium term imho.

I guess eventually one becomes the standard.

 

re: carraras future. It gets further behind. 8.5 was a bit of a joke, apart from the content package that came with it. Now that was value!