Octane 3 & OctaneRender Cloud

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In addition, the company has already outlined a roadmap for the release of version 4.0 in 2017: among other things, this version is intended to integrate the real-time path tracing engine Brigade, which can be used for vidoe games, into Octane.

OctaneRender 3

Octane 3 features GPU rendering including Open Shader Language (OpenSL) and OpenVDB for particle simulation. The render engine also provides the features Volumetric Light Field Primitives and Deep Motion Buffers for high-frame-rate VR rendering. Among other things, Live Texture Baking has also been optimised, the limitation on mesh and polygon sizes removed, and support added for Autodesk’s FBX and Disney’s PTEX file formats. You can find the complete overview of all features here.

Price and availability

From May 15, OctaneRender will be available for USD 399 for new customers and USD 49 for upgrade customers of version 2.x.

OctaneRender Cloud

Support for OctaneRender Cloud (ORC), seamlessly integrated into OctaneRender 3, will also be available from May 15. Depending on the needs of the render job, the on-demand service makes 20 to 2,000 GPUs usable. ORC is available on a subscription basis and provides high-speed storage, ORBX/OCS file versioning, syncing of the OctaneRender Live App and the Delta plug-in, HTML5 cloud desktop access, and Dropbox and Google Drive integration. 1,200 GPU minutes of render time start at a price of USD 9.99 per month.

Octane 3.1 update

Otoy is already working on the first update for version 3: this will add a native plug-in ecosystem that allows plug-ins to be loaded via ORBX modules. The new plug-ins will also support various shader languages beyond OpenSL, including Nvidia’s Material Definition Language (MDL). Native bone and skin animation support as well as CPU suport are also being added. OctaneRender 3.1 is due to be released this summer.

All further information about Octane from Otoy here.