Version 2.0 released today and network render...

[Goldorak]

How do you Justify charging the same price for Standalone and Render Slave Licenses??

We don't sell render slave licenses separately - yet. Right now, for this release, each computer needs a standalone license, which can also be used for network rendering or running standalone, or using plug-ins.

Any scenes that are rendering slowly should be passed to the devs so they can look into it - a 15% speed drop if many may occur, but it should not be half the speed.

Thank you for the reply. I hope you can understand my frustration here. No where in the description did it mention this. I was very excited to do some testing on our very small farm (5 nodes). Each with a gtx 680's. Only to find out that I will have to spend another $1,300 just to get them running Octane on distributed rendering. To be honest this release was the first release I felt that Octane was a viable replacement for Vray for us. I was EXTREMELY excited, only to be EXTREMELY disappointed. I really hope that you either offer a Render Slave License at a reduced price or just open it up to unlimited or limited 12 gpu's distributed rendering like many other renderer's have. With all that Otoy is doing with Amazon I am very surprised this wasn't the case.

I really do appreciate all your guys hard work. This product is kick ass! But open it up

We can definitely work on getting slave node licensing to be cheaper down the line, but that wasn't possible by launch. This feedback is helpful. Thank you.

[buggy]

I purchased the upgrade thinking that I would be able to use the GPU on my desktop to speed up the relatively slow GPU on my laptop, and now I find out in this thread that the network rendering feature that was touted in the new features list is only available if I purchase a whole new license. I think I read somewhere in documentation that the 2.0 release can access up to 12 GPUs, but there was no mention of additional purchases required do use this feature. The way it was pitched it sounded like a license can access 12 GPUs, regardless of where they are installed (in the master or a slave PC). Anyhow, the network feature is the reason I upgraded (I didn't even pay attention to the other features listed), so now I am disappointed to hear this, as it wasn't made clear up front and puts the feature out of my reach. Octane is a wonderful product but since I don't currently have a budget for fast video cards, the most practical way for me to speed things up in the near term is to tap the GPU on my second machine.

[Goldorak]

I purchased the upgrade thinking that I would be able to use the GPU on my desktop to speed up the relatively slow GPU on my laptop, and now I find out in this thread that the network rendering feature that was touted in the new features list is only available if I purchase a whole new license. I think I read somewhere in documentation that the 2.0 release can access up to 12 GPUs, but there was no mention of additional purchases required do use this feature. The way it was pitched it sounded like a license can access 12 GPUs, regardless of where they are installed (in the master or a slave PC). Anyhow, the network feature is the reason I upgraded (I didn't even pay attention to the other features listed), so now I am disappointed to hear this, as it wasn't made clear up front and puts the feature out of my reach. Octane is a wonderful product but since I don't currently have a budget for fast video cards, the most practical way for me to speed things up in the near term is to tap the GPU on my second machine.

Sorry buggy but that is the way the network rendering works. There may be other options down the line, but not if you want to use Octane 2 today for this purpose.

[imensah]

A free render node with upgrade licenses would be nice.. 299 does not make sense for a render node.
I also had the same idea working on my laptop but using the gpu on my desktop for better performance. Maybe i should have waited to see what i was really upgrading for.