Trying to run Demo in Maya 2020.4. Download file not working

[Intuition]

Hello, I have been tasked with looking at GPU solutions for a company I have been working for.

We utilize Vray in a CPU render farm and have used Redshift here and there for short/small gigs.

I have been assigned to look at Octane and other GPU unbiased render engines as a solution for quicker and nicer render solutions.

If Octane can fill this gap we would deploy it in a few departments at our company, meaning multiple licenses purchased.

The only issue is that I can't get the demo running on my Maya 2020.4 build at the moment.

I think the download cudnn_8_0_4 is going to the wrong folder or some other error. At the moment when Maya starts it can't load the plugin at all.

We just finished work for a very large gig with Vray for McLaren and would be deploying Otoy in a similar fashion if it can address our needs to shore up the lookdev and render times.
Hoping to move to a GPU solution vs CPU.

Thanks for any info in advance.

CaseyBenn.

[Intuition]

Just to update this from a few days ago. I went ahead and purchased Octane and it crashes on render start.

I sent a desktop recording to the help@otoy email..

In case anyone else wants to look at the problem my desktop capture problem vid is here.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/x6v7oyq7 ... 1.mp4/file

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
about demo and cuDNN library, please try to manually download the cuDNN library from the following link:
https://render.otoy.com/downloads/ef/08 ... _4_win.zip
Then navigate to C:\Users\Your User name\AppData\Local\OctaneRender, create the thirdparty directory, and copy in in it the 8.04 cuDNN library unzipped folder.


ciao,
Beppe

[Intuition]

With the help of tech support I was able to get Octane running in Maya.

I want to post questions in the Maya Plugin section but only the post new topic or reply buttons show up in this forum.

Is there a reason for this?

Thanks

[bepeg4d]

Ok, great to hear you have solved with Maya install, please write again to support to fix your forum permissions, thank.

ciao,
Beppe