EmberGen FX For Octane – FREE!

Whowwwwwww, whowwww, whowwww! Stop the press, what is this?! I just found in my email an exciting announcement from OTOY the makers of Octane.
“OTOY^® and JangaFX are thrilled to release the first public beta of EmberGenFX – bringing incredible real time GPU simulation tools for creating fire, volumetrics, smoke and particles to all OctaneRender subscribers.“

SAY WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?! A free release of a particle volumetric generator for Octane? Oh yes. Sign – me – up. If you are currently an Octane user, you want to capitalize on this, as the beta is currently free to the public for use.

For those who do not understand this, particle emitters and generation is how you create realistic animated smoke, water, and other fluid dynamic moving 3d content. Early demo tests of this new plug-in for Octane is really promising, and I am eager to download and begin experimenting with it.

Here are the features advertised to new users in the announcement email.

EmberGenFX Public Beta Features: 

• Procedurally-based particle and fluid simulations that bypass intermediate baking processes for real-time, iterative motion graphics workflows and game volumetrics.
   
• Export as VDB files for use across all OctaneRender DCC integrations.
   
• Support for VDB, PNG, TGA and EXR exports for image sequences and volumes.
   
• Full interactive real-time ray-marched volumes in the EmberGenFX viewport during simulation and animation keyframing.

Head over to the OTY website and check out the official release of EmberGenX to learn more.

Official release and more info: https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=75386