is this rendering or animation based competition ?

if animation then winner are justified ..

but if its rendering based I think octance Robot should win ... As its hosted by render engine company

To render a single frame using networked resources would be very difficult I imagine. Renderfarms use a cluster configuration or a grid that makes the OS think that the CPU speed is the sum of the cpu's in the network. Even this requires a lot of configuration and programming, and support on the ...

Hi,

Since you speak of expensive renderfarm systems for a TV channel, it should'nt be that complicated to setup a propper renderqueue manager not?
It would be like setting up a business network without a fileserver...

Also, we can't make a animation rendering queue as the animation data is not ...

Hi,

Regarding network rendering, this is something you do with a network queue manager instead of a render engine.
Any studio that does animation usually runs a commercial or free (like drqueue) network queue system that renders animation frames, and octane can be scripted into it.

Yours ...

im using octane on Mac OS X 10.6.4 .. i install Xcode also not for octane .. but usually developer tools add some useful libraries

I have few questions ... I want to build a renderfarm based on Octane render .. for TV channel ... We use maya & Max ... HP workstation / and soon switch to mac Pro's ... we already have renderfarm based on Cpu's 10 racks with dual quad core Xeons...

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which is better choice [ Quadro ...

wow ... conratz

im using GT120 but soon i will buy GTX285 or Quadro FX 4800 .. but no sure to go with geforce or quadro .. any suggestions

radiance wrote: the willl only be available later on for demo users, not right now as were still building and alligning all plugins, then documenting them for demo users.

Radiance

hmm .. ok .. i spend many hours searching for them .. better if you mention that on download page .. just an advice

I had no problem with octane in mac since I switch to 10.6.4 ( don't use it) and I'm using a hackintosh :lol: . I had some problems with the export plugin for maya but i guess that will be fixed in the next version :).

I don't have nay prob with Mac pro .. before i switch .. i used hackintosh for ...