Octane Plug-in for Rhino

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Otoy promises that the Octane render engine is fully integrated into the Rhinoceros 3D modelling environment through the "OctaneRender for Rhino" plug-in. This is intended to speed up the workflow drastically, because exporting Rhino scenes is no longer necessary.

Octane Render is a physically based and GPU-based render engine with a node-based user interface. This plug-in release is compatible with Rhino 5 in 64 bit on Windows Vista, 7 or 8.

Features of "OctaneRender for Rhino" include:

The plug-in user interface is provided in a Rhino panel so that it can be docked and provides all Octane data for the current scene in this panel
The Rhino scene can be rendered either in the Octane Render viewport with tracked camera position and live updates or with the normal Rhino rendering mechanism
Automatic conversion of Rhino materials and geometry into Octane, which can also still be edited completely
As in the Octane standalone version, the plug-in can be used to change the camera, resolution, environment or post-production settings
Octane LiveDB support
The render can be paused, resumed and saved
Materials and nodes can be duplicated using copy and paste

During the beta phase, the Octane plug-in costs 99 euros, and the final version will cost 199 euros. Ownership of a standalone version is required to use the plug-in. Anyone who does not yet own it can buy a complete bundle for 279 euros.

All further information is available here.

Attached you will find a free PDF from DP issue 06/12, where we previously took a closer look at the Octane renderer.

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