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Hello?

Anybody here? This is quite confusing... is this available now?? And what exactly is the difference between Octane Cloud and Brigade? There is a nice website for Brigade but without any info at all.

Is this a dead project or something (i did not read the whole 10 pages of this thread, just the first 2 and last 2)? I mean... it's a year after the announcement...
I'm confused about:
-) Difference between Octane Cloud (Workstation) vs. Brigade
-) Available? Only in US? Beta??
-) How to use this service?
-) Why is it hard to get answers to these questions?


Best regards,
Manuel

emendix wrote:Hello?

Anybody here? This is quite confusing... is this available now?? And what exactly is the difference between Octane Cloud and Brigade? There is a nice website for Brigade but without any info at all.

Is this a dead project or something (i did not read the whole 10 pages of this thread, just the first 2 and last 2)? I mean... it's a year after the announcement...
I'm confused about:
-) Difference between Octane Cloud (Workstation) vs. Brigade
-) Available? Only in US? Beta??
-) How to use this service?
-) Why is it hard to get answers to these questions?


Best regards,
Manuel

- Octane is an offline render, Brigade is a real-time ray-tracer aimed for games.
- The cloud service is currently being tested in US, the service is not yet publicly released.
- I think there are a couple of tutorial somewhere, but at the moment is quite complicated and not very user-friendly.
- It seems the devs are a bit shy regarding this, maybe Otoy doesn't want to spread false infos until the service is ready? I dunno, just guessing here.

Thank you very much for that info
What's strange to me is that the announcement was one year ago and since then no general info like status updates or something or a "hey, we're still testing this" comment.

Hope this will be released soon

Rikk The Gaijin wrote:

emendix wrote:Hello?

Anybody here? This is quite confusing... is this available now?? And what exactly is the difference between Octane Cloud and Brigade? There is a nice website for Brigade but without any info at all.

Is this a dead project or something (i did not read the whole 10 pages of this thread, just the first 2 and last 2)? I mean... it's a year after the announcement...
I'm confused about:
-) Difference between Octane Cloud (Workstation) vs. Brigade
-) Available? Only in US? Beta??
-) How to use this service?
-) Why is it hard to get answers to these questions?


Best regards,
Manuel

- Octane is an offline render, Brigade is a real-time ray-tracer aimed for games.
- The cloud service is currently being tested in US, the service is not yet publicly released.
- I think there are a couple of tutorial somewhere, but at the moment is quite complicated and not very user-friendly.
- It seems the devs are a bit shy regarding this, maybe Otoy doesn't want to spread false infos until the service is ready? I dunno, just guessing here.

There are two Octane Cloud services:

1) Using Octane remotely on the cloud with Max, Maya etc. from a browser.

This is live and has been since November on Amazon: viewtopic.php?p=176211#p176211

There is a beta version we are testing that allows you to get all this working without going through AWS, using just otoy.com, but we are not pushing it hard until we can get 1.5/2.0 updated to better support this with network rendering (see below)

2) Rendering on Multiple GPUs in the cloud (offline or live) using the Cloud Edition

This is in fact an Octane 2.0 feature, and we needed to get to 2.0 (cloud edition+ a new network node licensing model) to take advantage of this capability the same way we showed at GTC last year. The same code that allowed us to render on 100s of GPUs at once is now in Octane 2.0, and will be enabled through various different ways (rental, cloud, VCA appliance, DIY LAN render in house, etc.)

The most cost effective way to render in Octane will be in the cloud, due to economies of scale that leverage the entire user base. That is why we introduced ORBX packages in 1.5, to make render jobs trivial..

ORBX packages can also be sent to the Brigade engine on Amazon, which will allow you to use the B3 engine for walkthroughs inside a browser. Down the line, we will support games and VR through his service.

Hope this clears things up.

Hey there, I need to render a heavy, animated scene as fast as possible. I'm speaking of a highpoly water mesh,or 12k square textures. Certainly not really heavy, but with 20 Mb per frame... It bites. So, what is the best approach?

• Buy MORE video cards
• Bye MORE videocards and assemble a home LAN-Renderfarm
• Connect several PCs across the internet into a LAN
• Use Cloud Service

As I'm unaware of traffic usage, I can't calculate where a bottleneck would be. Network rendering is alluring, yet pricy or slow. Cloud service sounds sweet, but heck, I can't find any info or How-to.

Thank you

DayDreamer wrote:Hey there, I need to render a heavy, animated scene as fast as possible. I'm speaking of a highpoly water mesh,or 12k square textures. Certainly not really heavy, but with 20 Mb per frame... It bites. So, what is the best approach?

• Buy MORE video cards
• Bye MORE videocards and assemble a home LAN-Renderfarm
• Connect several PCs across the internet into a LAN
• Use Cloud Service

As I'm unaware of traffic usage, I can't calculate where a bottleneck would be. Network rendering is alluring, yet pricy or slow. Cloud service sounds sweet, but heck, I can't find any info or How-to.

Thank you

The cloud is the fastest render. At OTOY we never render stuff on our office LAN, we only use the cloud render where we can throw 100s of GPUs at a frame. Once your ORBX scene is uploaded, the rest is easier. We'll be introducing cloud storage and management soon. There will be some announcements at Siggraph about pricing.

Goldorak wrote:We'll be introducing cloud storage and management soon. There will be some announcements at Siggraph about pricing.

What happened to this?

Obizzz wrote:

Goldorak wrote:We'll be introducing cloud storage and management soon. There will be some announcements at Siggraph about pricing.

What happened to this?

The first two apps on X.IO are Octane CE and Blender. Pricing is still about 1$ GPU hour, but on X.IO we can do per minute pricing, and one click launch, with access to all major cloud storage venders.

Help!

I urgently need to use octane render cloud edition this weekend, is it possible?, where? how to ?

I have octane 1.0 purchased, but i will buy octane 2.0 if cloud edition is finally avaible.

Many thanks for the replay anybody!!

I wish I could get access to it too. We have an animation that even running 24/7 on our 4 computers may not get done in time.

The cloud edition is the single most important feature for our company. No other feature even comes close.