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Sorry that I don't have access yet to test the demo version at the moment. I have the follow questions in mind,

1) Does octane provide any dressing function ? In case I have several shots done in maya, and I edit the materials in octane. Can I save these edits and apply to multiple selected objects in another octane scenes in one go ?

2) Will it support rendering using gpu of other machines in the networks soon ?

1. no yet, we're working on a material preset system for next releases
2. it already does, but for animations. you don't really need a network of machines to render one image anymore with a decent GPU. for animations, you can use any render queue manager software to batch run octane on slave machines, provided they have an adequate GPU and a display. (a command line version is in the works)

Radiance

If we have 20 machines each with 2 gtx 480, do you mean that any one of the machines can render with 19x2 = 38 GPU cards ? It's important for us to make full use of resource.

liu_0083 wrote:If we have 20 machines each with 2 gtx 480, do you mean that any one of the machines can render with 19x2 = 38 GPU cards ? It's important for us to make full use of resource.

Yeah, you should install a render queue software. there are several around, one is free and it's called 'drqueue'.
You can schedule animations with it on your farm for rendering.

Radiance

Ya thanks. I've heard of drqueue before. Isn't it for distributed render only ? I was asking if it's possible to render a single frame with 38 GPU cards, as I mentioned above.

liu_0083 wrote:Ya thanks. I've heard of drqueue before. Isn't it for distributed render only ? I was asking if it's possible to render a single frame with 38 GPU cards, as I mentioned above.

No, you can't. But i don't see the reason why you would need 38 GPU cards to render one image...

Radiancde

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