OctaneRender 2019 for UnrealEngine 4

[ #Siggraph #OctaneRender #UnrealEngine #UE4 #Rendering ]At SIGGRAPH 2018, OTOY and Epic Games are thrilled to announce a preview of the OctaneRender 2019 integration with UnrealEngine 4. The integration is planned to release in the first half of 2019, will bring some new features: AI-accelerated GPU path-tracing and light field baking to Unreal Engine-powered games, film, FX, arch vis and mixed reality applications.
A private beta will be available in August with a public beta available later this year. You can read the full press release on OTOY’s website.

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The Unreal Engine integration on display at SIGGRAPH features:

• Rapid automatic conversion of Unreal Engine scenes and materials into OctaneRender and full integration of OctaneRender features shipping with Octane 2019.1.
• Brigade Engine scene graph (introduced with OctaneRender 4) for real-time path-traced games and interactive content powered by Unreal Engine
• AI Light, AI Scene, AI Spectral and Volumetric Denoising, and Out-of-Core Geometry, UDIM Support and Light Linking for production-ready final rendering
• Octane Vectron and Spectron – fully procedural node-based Volumetric Geometry and Lighting for infinite detail and granular lighting control (introduced in OctaneRender 2018)
• Using OTOY’s ORBX scene format, the current integration supports 20+ of the industry’s leading DCC tools – including Cinema4D, Autodesk Maya, and 3DS Max – enabling artists to easily drag and drop scenes from their favorite authoring tools and mix and match them with Unreal Engine content in a fully responsive Live Viewport.
• OctaneRender 2019 first look – optimized support for NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing, Vulkan, DXR, CUDA and Metal iOS/Mac OS backends built on OTOY’s cross-platform RNDR framework. AI Viewport: mixed reality media, including upscaling, AI style filters, light field and holographic output for next-generation volumetric displays and HMDs.

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