Octane 1.50 is out!?

[Elvissuperstar007]

Fooze

Thanks but the AWS.amazon setup is as confusing as hell to a simple designer like me, a whole lot of jargon that i have no idea about, not even sure what i will get at the end of it and how much it will cost. I assumed maybe stupidly that we would have the option within Octane/Plug-in to simply press a button, log in, select the number of GPUs we wanted and hay presto the render would be delivered once completed and my account charged accordingly, What you are suggesting requires a degree in computer science just to understand. If this is the only option for "cloud Rendering" can you please write using simple language a detailed description of how this should work, feel free to use a number of screen shots and a movie of the process would be outstanding.


John

+++++100000000000

[FooZe]

Hi Nuge,

Thanks for your comments.
Please understand that I am part of the Octane team in NZ and the cloud service is not really being handled/designed by the team here, so I am somewhat detached from it (apart from website changes).
The best place to get answers about current cloud stuff is on the cloud forum: http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=64

I agree, that the above is for system administrator types that know what they are doing.
I would not suggest our normal/average customer use this, and the above is not able to use multiple GPU's to render the same image (each instance has only 1 GPU and you cannot connect them together with the current octane) so it's probably not what you are after anyway.

Sorry for any confusion or miscommunication about this. I think the short answer to your original question is that the 1.5 release does not include a cloud service, as far as i know there is still work being done on this.

Thanks
Chris.

[Nuge]

Fooze,

Sorry sounds like a cop out to me, all of the discussions have led users to believe that "cloud rendering" was going to be part of octane 1.5, are you now saying that's not the case and we will have to wait till god knows when before it a reality.

Starting to get F****d off about the lack of a clear roadmap for major features like this, stop teasing us with "its coming" and start to deliver things that users need

John

[Goldorak]

Fooze,

Sorry sounds like a cop out to me, all of the discussions have led users to believe that "cloud rendering" was going to be part of octane 1.5, are you now saying that's not the case and we will have to wait till god knows when before it a reality.

Starting to get F****d off about the lack of a clear roadmap for major features like this, stop teasing us with "its coming" and start to deliver things that users need

John

We've made it clear the rendering service for ORBX packages would come online after 1.5 ships, which just happened today.

If Amazon EC2 is not for you, we have rendering credits and online storage as part of Octane Cloud that you can beta test now, prior to the public release, if you are interested in helping provide feedback and bug fixes. Please contact Jax or Fooze regarding early access to this program.

Also -there is an Octane panel at GTC next week with Q & A. We'll post more info shortly.

[manalokos]

Re-arrange graph is a great addition to Octane, finally we can save hours organizing the nodes!

[Rikk The Gaijin]

If Amazon EC2 is not for you, we have rendering credits and online storage as part of Octane Cloud that you can beta test now, prior to the public release, if you are interested in helping provide feedback and bug fixes. Please contact Jax or Fooze regarding early access to this program.

I am interested! Please tell me how to be a part of that!

[glimpse]

..Please contact Jax or Fooze regarding early access to this program.

I am interested! Please tell me how to be a part of that!

[smicha]

Goldorak,

I asked two or three times of how to get into the cloud. No one replied.

s

[Goldorak]

Goldorak,

I asked two or three times of how to get into the cloud. No one replied.

s

Did you PM Jax? If so, when?

At this point, if you can hold off until after GTC, I would

We'll have some big news coming out from the show, including more details regarding sending an .ORBX to the cloud for rendering.

[smicha]

We'll have some big news coming out from the show, including more details regarding sending an .ORBX to the cloud for rendering.

Will it be done from Octane? Or via amazon?