I can personally confirm on what Matt said about bugs. When I as really small freelancer with not much licences, submit in my evening and if it is bug I saw new update posted tomorrow morning in not single but couple occasion. That goes a long way
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Matt Morris <matt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm going to have to disagree with that 'virtually the same as a redshift > experience' statement - just reading the maya plugin support forum on otoy > has been enough to keep me away from using it in production, as it was > clear that the plugin developer had way too many hats to wear (ie several > plugins), was slow to update to the most recent versions and didn't respond > to forum posts at all. The redshift experience is a polar opposite, bugs > are squished almost the same day, and they always respond to posts, even > when its a good chance of being user error. > > That said I realise that otoy are trying to do something about that > situation, and will keep an eye on the progress of 3.0/3.1 as and when its > released. > > On 11 April 2016 at 15:38, Angus Davidson <angus.david...@wits.ac.za> > wrote: > >> Octane can use additional memory (its just not set up by default as it >> slows things down) >> >> You also don’t need to use the standalone, There are MAYA / Soft plugins >> which make it virtually the same as a redshift experience. >> >> In 3.1 they will be adopting the glTF format (they dropped FBX saying it >> was too clunky ) Although both FBX and USD can be added in theory using >> their now opened API. >> >> I did some tests on the weekend and am cautiously optimistic about glTF >> as a potential format, although I think they should have gone the USD route. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Angus >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Morten Bartholdy [mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk] >> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 3:28 PM >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> Subject: RE: OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and >> OctaneRender Cloud, previews Brigade/OctaneRender >> >> I agree with Marc-Andre on that, but that said, afaik Octane is >> standalone requiring export as alembic or obj, which is somewhat limiting >> compared to the built in flexibility of Redshift/XSI combo. Also last time >> I checked Octane does not allow using system memory for scene data like >> Redshift does. >> >> Morten >> >> >> >> > Den 8. april 2016 klokken 15:53 skrev Marc-Andre Carbonneau >> > <marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com>: >> > >> > >> > Perhaps but it’s always good to keep an eye on the competition, no? ;) >> > They have a few things very interesting going on. Haven’t followed >> > Redshift closely lately. >> > >> > Happy Friday all >> > MAC >> > >> > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ognjen >> > Vukovic >> > Sent: April-08-16 9:22 AM >> > To: softimage <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> >> > Subject: Re: OTOY announces availability of OctaneRender 3 and >> > OctaneRender Cloud, previews Brigade/OctaneRender >> > >> > I think its all Redshift fanboys here :). >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau >> > <marc-andre.carbonn...@ubisoft.com<mailto:marc-andre.carbonneau@ubisof >> > t.com>> >> > wrote: >> > Thought you guys might be interested in this. >> > http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/otoy-announces-availability-of >> > -octanerender-3-and-octanerender-cloud-previews-brigadeoctanerender-in >> > tegration-coming-in-2017-300246716.html >> > >> > >> > Marc-André Carbonneau >> > Production Manager >> > Unannounced Project – Ubisoft Montreal >> > >> > >> > ------ >> > Softimage Mailing List. >> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to >> > softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-request@listp >> > roc.autodesk.com> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to >> > confirm. >> > >> > ------ >> > Softimage Mailing List. >> > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >> style="width:100%;"> >> <tr> >> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font >> face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span >> style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee >> only. 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