as far as I know, octane is a pure brute-force gpu raytracer, what's unique about redshift is that it introduces biased techniques on the gpu, interpolated gi etc...
as for mr, the render engine is quite bad, but don't forget the shaders are excellent, that's one thing good about mental ray. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > Well the comparison with MR handling is more in the sense of how we > assembled the render tree during all tthe years that we only had MR, and > its shaders. > > RS did an amazing job in make you feel at the home kitchen but in a > totally new modern building. So when you need to cook, you know where are > all the ingredients and you are serving dinner in no time. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation. > > -- Andreas Byström Weta Digital
