OctaneRender 2.0 Workstation AMI Tweet

[JohnDavis]

Where is it?

[Goldorak]

Where is it?

The AMIs are virtual machine shells that are not tied to a specific Octane version, but optimized to support Octane in general through our remoting stack.

We have seen users install Octane ( pretty much all versions) on the AMIs for remote GPU power, that will be deprecated shortly after we launch the Cloud Edition. OCE will expose Octane as a service (version 2.0+), which will make using Octane in the cloud much cheaper and simpler than trying to run it on the current AMIs, and also enable a proper SDK for the cloud specific features for 3rd parties to use.

[JohnDavis]

Is there an ETA on OCE?

How is the 4D procedural texture support coming along?

[Goldorak]

Is there an ETA on OCE?

How is the 4D procedural texture support coming along?

1) Not long. We expect to have a more solid ETA in the next month or so.

2) What procedurals are you referring to specifically?

[JohnDavis]

To start, 4D simplex/perlin noise. Combined with compute/geometry shading (marching cubes), and fragment shading there's a lot of cool possibilities.

https://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise

Perhaps I'm not up to date on everything. Kinda tight on cash, hoping to jump on board when the cloud edition is out. All I can do for now is read. Anything I can read while waiting, would be much appreciated.

[Goldorak]

Have you had a chance to try out the demo version?

[JohnDavis]

Just installed. My laptop has an Intel gpu, so no love from the demo version. Is there any other way to get at the docs?

[j7th]

... and also enable a proper SDK for the cloud specific features for 3rd parties to use.

Hi, you mean SDK for current plugins developers or public SDK?

[j7th]

... and also enable a proper SDK for the cloud specific features for 3rd parties to use.

Hi, you mean SDK only for current plugins developers or public SDK?

[Goldorak]

... and also enable a proper SDK for the cloud specific features for 3rd parties to use.

Hi, you mean SDK for current plugins developers or public SDK?

both