rs for Redshift which should speed up working with large scenes even further. They recently introduced the 3Delight equivalent of working directly with binary proxies such as. They're working out a couple of small technical kinks, but the team moves quickly, and typically fixes come in within a week of someone posting about a bug. I wish it had a bit more of those “lazy” utility nodes right out of the gate, such as Curvature for instance…but for anyone using an outside paint/texturing app such as Substance Painter it's not that big of a deal. It's 99% there, very stable overall and the renders are fast and look good. I'm going to make a YouTube video soon about it and discuss the pros and cons of working in 3Delight. ANYONE in the chat who has been saying for the past few months that this would NEVER happen…it will, it did, and it's not years away. We have also added preliminary XDR display support in standalone.” This cannot be any more clear. We reached full pixel parity with Octane 2020 CUDA about two months ago, and have spent the time since then working on getting more and more speed on AMD GPUs (Mac Pro users with Vega II Pro Duo - you might have the highest OB score of any single slot card).

Octane X on Metal is 100% now feature complete.

As for software solutions, this was said 8 days ago directly to us: “all macOS CUDA plug-ins now have Octane X DCC plug-ins ready, and are being tested right now by the closed beta group: C4D, Maya, Houdini, Lightwave, Blender, Sketchup, Poser, Modo and Nuke.” They've been very open “as open as they can” while keeping their mouths mostly shut over the past few months of beta but the bottom line, and I quote: “We are very proud to roll out our first release of Octane X for AMD/Intel GPUS to a select group of beta testers. Thank you all for your patience!” They've been in a closed beta since April 20th, which those of us whom have been in it are signed to EXTREMELY HEAVY NDA's which is why everyone's been so tightlipped about it…and as much as I love Redshift…looks like Octane X will be getting the first big wave. If testing goes well (so far it is) through the weekend, we should be able to announce a date for our first official public preview next week.

So I have received word directly from OTOY which I am quoting directly from the top: “RC1 just went live yesterday in closed beta.

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