.. It is important to understand that PCIe or Ethernet speed does not affect GPU rendering speed once all data is pushed to the GPU memory.

Thanks Boris, that was the important part. Good to know, but now that I think about it, it kind of makes total sense. I have been using network rendering as ...

Yes, I am using connectors of this type:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01H4PATHW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Since PCIe x 1 is many times faster then the Ethernet connection used to communicate to the master computer PCIe x 1 interface is not a bottleneck.
Ethernet is cca ...

I have two open rigs with 6 GPUs each connected over network to master computer. Each rig has super cheap Asrock H81 Pro BTC with the crappiest Intel CPU on it and 16GB of RAM and SSD and that's it.

That sounds good, but how are you connecting 6 GPUs on a motherboard with only 1 PCIe slot? Can ...

I wouldn't go for 980ti for maximum GPU count (of course unless you absolutely need the 6GB of memory). They are too expensive, even for used ones. Get the much cheaper 780ti. 980ti has Octane bench result of 125 and 780ti has 103, so 980ti is only 25% faster, but costs around 100% more.

I have ...

If, like me, you like to take an analytical approach to what hardware to buy, you can use this handy little Excel sheet I made. It lists the most common graphics cards from the last few years, Number of Cuda Cores, Memory and Octane Bench result. You can sort by any column.

Now you can go looking ...

I am using the Octane Version 2.24 Plugin in Maya 2014 and are having some troubles with it.
1) I am not getting any motion blur at all, independent of settings. If I export to standalone (more on that later), the motion blur is there.
2) If I use batch render the result is different to a normal ...

I am trying to use the new Octane Render Plugin in Maya 2016.5 and have installed the latest version. Also updated the standalone to the corresponding version and also updated our render node.
If I open the standalone the node shows in the network rendering section. In the plugin though, nothing ...

Thank you. Can't wait to test this with a Pascal card!, will be ordering one soon.

Just ordered a GTX 1070 (Asus Strix). Will be picking it up on monday and hopefully test it right away, although I am not holding my breath performance-wise. But still intruiged. I guess OctaneBench doesn't have ...

From Lua you can set an animator octane.node.setAnimator function. For instance given a scatter node and a list of strings with the file names you can do

scatterNode:setAnimator("transforms", {0}, fileList, 1/24)

Hi Roeland,

Thanks for your answer. I am still trying to get to grips with LUA ...

You can, either you update the csv file each frame or you set up an animator for the A_TRANSFORM attribute (which is a list of transformation matrices). There are examples here on the forum on how to set up animators.

Hello @stratified,

could you point me in the right direction of achieving ...