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i just bought octane render today and want to know if you will send me a mail with links and licence.

regards.

chris hau

The influx of license purchases have swamped the boys the last week or so. They're working on automating the service, but its just not there yet. It should come soon just be patient. Their based in Europe, so they're probably sleeping at the moment.

ok thanks for reply, and what can you tell me about octane render ?

what your experience working with this render system ?

So far I love it. It has far exceeded my expectations. It takers a little getting use to but the results are just amazing. I have been very happy to see a lot of things carry over from blender properly (rigged animations, cloth simulation, and others). Only thing it is really missing for me is mesh emitter, which are coming soon, and point based particles/hair. Once your license it active and your forum account gets you access to the full lists, check out the resources and sharing forum for some great tips and tricks.

its great to hear that, and what about the graphics card, i hace quadro fx 4800 1.5 gb and fx 5800 with 4 gb, with a 3 ghz quad processor and 16 gibs of ram, so i wonder if these workstations cards are good to work with octane cause every body
is talking about the gtx models that are great to work with.

so whats your opinion, i think quadro´s models are very powerfull, i recently bought Match studio GPU with a Ati Fire Pro 8800 but im dissapointed with the quality and the missing features cause its expensive and octane render looks great at 49 euros !

i also bought furryball for maya but is expensive too but better than match studio in many ways, im investing cause here in mexico its a virgin market for bussines so i want to be prepared to do the best
job.

When the newer quadro and tesla cards, using the newer gpus used in the gtx400 series, those will be awesome cards. The ones you listed will be great, especially the 5800. The new ones will pretty much double the render speed. I looked at Mach studio as well back when all of this gpu rendering stuff started really coming out and it just didn't seem to be feature rich enough for the cost, and the quality just didn't seem too much better then I was getting in my native program.

I will be curious to see the reaction Octane gets at Siggraph next month as it is the really the most accessible gpu render solution out there.

chrishau wrote:... and what about the graphics card, i hace quadro fx 4800 1.5 gb and fx 5800 with 4 gb...

According to Wikipedia:

Quadro FX 4800 - 693.5 GFLOPs
Quadro FX 5800 - 933.12 GFLOPs

GeForce GTX 470 - 1088.64 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 480 - 1344.96 GFLOPs

This should give you a relative idea of speeds between the video cards.

GeoPappas wrote:

chrishau wrote:... and what about the graphics card, i hace quadro fx 4800 1.5 gb and fx 5800 with 4 gb...

According to Wikipedia:

Quadro FX 4800 - 693.5 GFLOPs
Quadro FX 5800 - 933.12 GFLOPs

GeForce GTX 470 - 1088.64 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 480 - 1344.96 GFLOPs

This should give you a relative idea of speeds between the video cards.

afaik the GTX400's are faster since they have a cache

Radiance

well i think i will buy a gtx 480, as i can see is the best option for octane, quadro fx cards i bought them cause i use maya and stereoscopic function, and i receive a autodesk flame student licence and quadro is the only that runs that software.

but the are expensive ones compared with gtx 480, and i appreciate the quick feedback, but to tell the thruth octane is the best option in the market and the final release promise to be amazing.

and the price is incredible, making accesible to everyone, and that rocks!

i contact nvidia and send me the brochure of Tesla C2050 / C2070 GPU, can be this card better than the gtx models ?

so i can decide which one to buy....

thanks for everything

The c2000 series use the new Fermi gpu's, so the same as the gtx400's, but you get much more ram and probably a little performance increase as they tweak some of the path lanes and such, like in the quadros only better.