I have however decide to press ahead and by this after a quick play of the version 3 Beta when it becomes available.

The "demo" version of the plugin is only available once a major release of Octane migrates from TEST to STABLE.  So the TEST release of the OctaneRender for Poser plugin for Octane 3 (supporting OpenCL) will be available a few months (pure guess!) prior to the "demo" version.

5-6 hour render with Octane is not the fastest there as I would expect from two 970,did you tried to render only with one card ?

To reduce your render times, set Kernel->GI Clamp to 1, Imager->Hot Pixel to 0 Caustic Blur to about 0.5, Kernel->Coherent Ratio at 1 (use 0 whilst tweaking your materials and move to 1 for the final render).

Where I see things going....looking at renders on Rendo and DA in your monitor will soon be a thing of the past.  I think this will all be replaced by VR - so instead of looking at a Poser render in 2d, you'll use the VR goggles and your Samsung S6 to put yourself in the scene.  Having used these googles - I can only say the experience i incredible.  You will be able to put the scene together in Poser, render in Octane in 3d panoramic, upload to Rendo/DA, and people will be able to download in view in their goggles.

Paul

Creator of PoserPhysics
Creator of OctaneRender for Poser
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