Hi,
We use deadline as render manager. We call upon the commandline renderer from a centralized server location, same thing with plugins. How do I assign our 5 enterprise licenses to the rendernodes when each rendernode never run the GUI?
Cheers,
Centralized c4d & octane deployment // licensing
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Yes, sorry, I should have been clearer. An Octane Render Slave can be run from a terminal window on Mac, Windows and *nix, and you can enter your Enterprise license info there. It should work, since Enterprise licenses work for Slave nodes as well as the full app/plugin.
I'm not 100% sure, though. I do remember having problems running C4D/Octane without a GUI via Deadline a few years ago, but things have changed a bit since then. As I recall, the problem wasn't so much with the licensing, as actually getting the various Octane Libraries to load without the GUI calling them. My memory is a bit fuzzy. I think I had some good exchanges with the Thinkbox guys on their forum about it, if it continues to be a problem.
In the end, the Octane Network rendering was good enough that we didn't need to Deadline it. We'd been using Deadline for managing mixed local/AWS renders, back when we were still CPU rendering on hundreds of cores instead of a handful of GPUs.
I'm not 100% sure, though. I do remember having problems running C4D/Octane without a GUI via Deadline a few years ago, but things have changed a bit since then. As I recall, the problem wasn't so much with the licensing, as actually getting the various Octane Libraries to load without the GUI calling them. My memory is a bit fuzzy. I think I had some good exchanges with the Thinkbox guys on their forum about it, if it continues to be a problem.
In the end, the Octane Network rendering was good enough that we didn't need to Deadline it. We'd been using Deadline for managing mixed local/AWS renders, back when we were still CPU rendering on hundreds of cores instead of a handful of GPUs.
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