Octane Render V2.0 License Management

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The company I work for has, at last count, 32 standalone licenses and 10 revit plugin licenses, and plans to buy more.
Licenses currently seem to be tied to a particular user account, not just a particular machine.

This is a bit painful to manage, what we have ended up doing is making a generic octane user on various boxes and our architects render at one of these shared machines. This is going to be a limitation on expanding the number of seats at some point, ideally we would like to see some sort of network licensing so that users do not have to change desks to render. We are currently the worlds largest Vray user utilizing their network licensing scheme.

People are really enjoying Octane and I can see its use rapidly exceeding that of vRay throughout the firm, the current crop of laptops and workstations we now purchase have enough cuda cores to make octane useful for study rendering during the course of design development, and powerful machines in conference and meeting rooms are a great way to present to clients in near real time.

We need a more flexible licensing approach to get Octane more deeply and broadly into the workflow of several hundred designers. Do you have any plans to improve at the next release upon the current licensing mechanism.

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[Goldorak]

Yes we do.

2.0 will add a more flexible pricing model than what is currently available. This is not finalized yet, but you will get an idea of where we're heading once you see the GTC presentation slide on pricing.