by kavorka » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:22 pm
kavorka
Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:22 pm
I'll be honest. I have no problem with how long it is taking for V3 and ORC. I understand it takes time to get it all done correctly. I really just want to know exactly how the pricing for ORC will work. We have had some snippets, but as far as I know, nothing concrete.
We are a small company with only 3 dedicated people working on renderings. Our computers are able to render out our normal workload, but every couple of months we get a flythrough animation for an architect and the render time is crazy. ORC might be our solution, but if the cost is high it might be better for us to buy another quad GPU comp for our internal network.
We have been waiting over a year to make our decision because we don't want to buy the new hardware only to start using ORC. ORC would be our preferable method. Makes things easy, dont need to worry about hardware, scales to what we need it, etc. But without comparing cost, we can't make a decision.
It is getting to the point that we might need to buy the hardware just to be able to manage incoming projects which would mean it wouldn't be cost effective to then use ORC.
If you guys wait too long to release ORC, or even just the concrete pricing plan, you might end up losing costumers who need a solution for their growing workload.
Intel quad core i5 @ 4.0 ghz | 8 gigs of Ram | Geforce GTX 470 - 1.25 gigs of Ram