DonFarese wrote:Okay nagboy, I'm really getting hooked right now on octane. My Scenes are now rendering a lot faster due to the help you have provided. So Thank you very much for that. I have a few questions for production.
1) What or who do I use for a renderfarm? This is my main concern!
2) I currently am testing these Gpu renderers with a Titan x mainly for it's 12gb ram, but do I have to really be concerned with memory? seems Octane is good at keeping it low and able to maybe offload to system ram. So should I buy much cheaper 780's with 6gb. Some scenes will get very large though.
Great that you've found answer for your problem!
About the questions:
1. I'll look for GPU rendering providers and let you know. I heard something about Amazon - am I right? Maybe more users have some knowelge about GPU farms.
2. Memory is crucial when you rendering complex scenes with lot of polygons and textures. Too bad for now OCTANE is limited to ~16Million polys (if I remember correctly) so at this time you probably won't use all GPU memory but it gives you great possibilities for future. In my opinion 6GB of VRAM or more is best option for OCTANE when you render complex scenes or huge resolutions.
Look on Tom Glimps website:
http://tomglimps.com/ - there is article why GPU memory is important.
That's my humble 2 cents...