by Daniel_Ward » Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:00 pm
Daniel_Ward
Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:00 pm
Hi Jason,
We've got 2 Octane/ArchiCAD Combo Licences and we upgraded them to the new "All Access" Licences. For us, we've got 3-4 users in our Architect's Studio who use Octane in ArchiCAD and I have 3 GPU's in my PC that I share with the other users when I'm not rendering myself. Moving to the "All Access" licences/subscription means we get the new Octane versions, but more importantly we picked up a 'free' Slave Daemon licence, as well as 2 more Studio and All Access Plug in licences.
So effectively we can now use 4 instances of Octane on ArchiCAD, for the cost of upgrading our 2 existing licences to "All Access". Previously due to my needing to use one of the licences to host the Slave Daemon on my PC, we almost only had 1.5 licences.
We have 2 PC's with RTX cards in them now, so those in combination with the 'free' Studio licences we got really don't need to use the Slave Daemon, and when Octane 2019 starts using the RTX cores, they'll only get faster.
Again, as you will see in this new build, being able to set a network path for the LocalDB lets me set up materials all of the office can access easily, and the interface with a material preview will be much easier to use for my less technically minded users in the office...
So, you mileage will vary depending on your usage, but for us, the upgrade was very worthwhile.
Cheers, Dan.
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Daniel_Ward on Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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