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I have been a long time user and a happy custumer of octane render. i am really disappointed about the new subscription model.
The subscription model is something that i really dont like.
The adobe model is basically a scam in my opinion. and i will never go back in a similar situation again.

So i hope otoy is gonna go back to sell software as they did in the past. but if they dont i see no other alternative but to use redshift.

that said octane is a really amazing piece of software, thanks for everything! bye!!

I'm on the fence whether to go with the subscription model, or keep Octane 4. I am all in for options. I'd rather upgrade to 2019 perpetual than susbscription. My requirements for rendering have shifted a lot just the past couple years. I don't render as much as I used to. A perpetual license would suit me a lot more than subscription. I'd feel like I'm paying for a service I don't use, vs. having Octane ready to go at any time, even in the future.

Honest opinion; I'm disappointed.

I have no idea what happened and I can can't even figure out what to do to cause Octane to function.

I got the Daz plug in years ago, and that came with Octane. Now its doesn't work? What has changed? I never subscribed to anything. What is this thing called subscription? How do I know if My software is installed?

What does "license available but does not have all access" mean?

Does this mean I need something called "All Access" to use Daz Studio? I see nothing labeled "All Access" in the store...

Clear as MUD.

Hi Hydra,
You are attempting to launch Octane for DAZ V2018.x instead of V4.x; you would to purchase OctaneRender All-Access Extension.
All-Access to the Industry's largest DCC plug-in ecosystem
Octane 'All-Access' Enterprise subscription can access multiple DCC plugins from OctaneRender Studio - including Maya, AutoCAD, Revit, Houdini, Blender, 3ds Max, After Effects, Nuke, Unity, and soon, Unreal Engine.

All-Access to Extra Rendering Power
For perpetual licence/enterprise customers, All-Access plans further grant a secondary render slave node plus access to the ORC cloud rendering service.

All-Access to the Future
Get continuous access to all future updates and new features beyond OctaneRender 4, including NVLink (available in Octane 2018.1) and full Vulkan-RTX hardware acceleration on Turing GPUs coming in Octane 2019.

https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/purchase/ then click on UPGRADE

Regards
Paride

I would like to test Octane for Unreal Engine but I am a bit confused.
Currently I have perpetual active licences for Standalone + Blender for version 4.
When I try to use Octane in UE4 then I have some license issue.
How can I test Octane for UE4 based on my current licenses ?

Do I need to buy enterprise edition if I want to use network rendering ? Is there any standalone version that I can use as render slave node ? I mean Octane 2018 and up.

sinesium wrote:I would like to test Octane for Unreal Engine but I am a bit confused.
Currently I have perpetual active licences for Standalone + Blender for version 4.
When I try to use Octane in UE4 then I have some license issue.
How can I test Octane for UE4 based on my current licenses ?

yes, you can; did you install Octane for UE4 Enterprise version https://www.otoyserver.com/unrealengine ... UE4_22.exe?
Regards
Paride

SSmolak wrote:Do I need to buy enterprise edition if I want to use network rendering ? Is there any standalone version that I can use as render slave node ? I mean Octane 2018 and up.

Hi ssmolak,
OctaneRender Studio Subscription has the following limitations compared with a full (purchased) license:
Use of the software is available only while online, connected via the internet to the OctaneRender licensing server
Subscription licenses may not be used with non-subscription licenses (i.e. purchased licenses)
A maximum of 2 GPU's are available for rendering (OctaneRender v2018)
Network rendering is not available (OctaneRender v2018)
Regards
Paride

Jules Urbach said on the Facebook page that "Enterprise subs & perpetual 2019 licenses also coming soon". Is there any ETA for this ?

i'm user from octane 0.5, from the start and i dislike every subscription model.
to be honest, what's the point?
the point is long time support of scene and project.
during last 35 years of my digital life (yes, i'm bit old on digital) i was forced to upgrade and keep upgraded a lots of scene, project, objects and so on when software start to not be compatible with the past. In my work of documentary and animation for documentary often customers ask me to upgrade and use again stuff 10-15 years old. Ones of reason that i use Lightwave3D and Cinema4D are their great and longr term support of old scene.
The problem are not compatiblity of software today but also the ability to open old software today.
Recently the adobe lie about Cloud subscription (you can use and install from today to the last cs5) be disappear due their problem with dolby (they decide to cut off all old version with dolby codec) that mean i cannot open many projects did with old versions od premiere (premiere not exist under mac from cs to cs3, win only) and you can open only under windows, but most of recent version 2018-2019 give me tons of error be cause they change memroy allocation and more and i was forced to install a warez version of software to "update" project without error (only an open and save with 2014 win version) and all work fine. In past i keep with every years backup a copy of software used to produce that work (editor, 3d, photo editing and more, codec installer).
At today the subscription model often force you to use last version, good if is full compatible with past, but never be it.
not all people work today, send to their customer and forget the work.
please think to a stable solution parallel to rental model, for you (to be free to update and change software easely), for customer (to allo to storage software with data to recreate the same exact work).