I recently had a scene where there was about 50,000,000 instances poly's of vegetation, and after 300 frames some falling gemstones. Just use an animated constant node plugged into the appropriate settings Remember unlike LW native.all these settings are animatable.including the number of samples. The beauty of the DL kernel is you can control the number of bounces for each spec gloss and diffuse.often you can tune the render. If you use direct lighting and diffuse vs path tracing, the number of bounces is your only control to speed things up.as an equal number of bounces under DL/diffuse and path tracing will result in nearly identical speeds You will see a major speed improvement over path tracing or PMC To speed things up try running ambient occlusion on the direct lighting kernel, and limit the spec and diffuse bounces to like 4 for spec and glossy and 2 or 3 for diffuse, and the samples to 500. Try rendering a 2k image in lightwave with GI on and then compare. Octane is not the holy grail of rendering.but in a lot of situations the speed increase is miraculous.ĪA speed cannot be compared with is an order of magnitude faster.

and usually a dual GPUs system (for example 2x GTX780) is enough to work in production with nice render times.Ī lot of new users are disappointed before they discover the right settings. Try to render an animated character in a GI environment with LightWave and with Octane and you could find that Octane is a lot faster and artifacts free. This is why for example Arnold is now widely used in VFX productions, and Octane has the same unbiased architecture that makes it a nice solution for animation. The same settings usually works fine in all scenes, and the detail of the lighting is really great, without interpolations or other tricks. The unbiased renderers like Octane are predictable, artifacts free and easy to configure. A biased solution of course could be faster for render static interior, architecture visulization like scenes, but the problem is that the biases solutions are really problematic if you need to animate something in the scene, like the objects and the lights, and you need to spent a lot of time adjusting parameters to get a good render without artifacts. Octane, like Arnold and other render engines, is an unbiased renderer, so compare it with the Lightwave native render engine is not an easy task.

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