#OCTANE RENDER FARM HOW TO#
#OCTANE RENDER FARM UPDATE#

Render NodesР”Вoes the render engine have render nodes you can buy for a discount? Or are they rentable? For example, scaling octane can be easy at $20/month for a 2 gpu machine. Many render engines now have inbuilt denoisers, this is definitely something you should pay attention to, it can save LOTS of render time. Modern days biased render engines have ways of overcoming these shortcomings, with relatively little effort, but nonetheless, its still an issue sometimes. This is the reason you get splotchy renders and flickering in animations. So it throws more power at the areas with more details, and less at smooth surfaces, and then averages stuff. While biased means that the render engines cheats in order to increase speed. Generally most unbiased render engines will have a very similar look and feel to them. Unbiased render engines are brute force light calculations. You might here these terms regarding render engines thrown around. Most engines now can offload textures to the ram, but as far as i know they still keep all the geometry on board, so make sure your video card has enough ram, and your render engine can handle that much geometry. When going for a GPU render also keep this in mind. And something you should definitely consider. Which may or may not be important to you. They can handle Astronomical sized scenes without crashing.

This is something that Arnold and HoudiniРІР‚в„ўs Mantra are famous for. If you want to know why you would want node based materials check out my РІР‚СљNodeРІР‚в„ўs like you are 5РІР‚Сњ video. Some render engines donРІР‚в„ўt have node based materials at all, should be something to keep in mind. Most renderer with node based materials now have РІР‚Сљuber shadersРІР‚Сњ or something similar, which means you donРІР‚в„ўt have to build things with nodes if you donРІР‚в„ўt want to, but itРІР‚в„ўs still some thing you should pay attention to. You might like nodes, you might hate nodes.

#OCTANE RENDER FARM HOW TO#

Octane isnРІР‚в„ўt falling far behind, i regularly see articles which explain how to get certain parameters out of x-particles in Octane. Redshift and Arnold also do a pretty good job, but i recommend testing it yourself. Cycles 4D is from the same developers, so it supports everything. If you intend to do particle work, you should check how well it integrates with x-particles. Does it support motion blur for deforming meshes? FeaturesР”Вoes this render engine support the features that you need? Can it render hair? Does it support Mograph color shaders? Openvdb volumes? How about itРІР‚в„ўs instancing support? How much geometry can it handle? How memory efficient is it? Can it render a convincing SSS effect? How slow is that effect. Which is not good if you have tight deadlines and clients who change their mind a lot. You have to use their render farm, and if itРІР‚в„ўs down, you are out of luck. Octane also isnРІР‚в„ўt such a great choice, because render farms are a pain with it. And in an animation you probably wonРІР‚в„ўt be able to notice the subtle nuances that maxwell produces anyway. Unless you like spending thousands of dollars on render farms. First speed is waay more important to you, and something like Maxwell is a dead end. However if you are doing animation you have to pay attention to other things. But you also have things like Maxwell, which is really slow, but produces results that are hard to match for anyone else. It has great inbuilt post effects, so you donРІР‚в„ўt really need to do post work in a 3rd party app and there is a huge amount of tutorials on it. IРІР‚в„ўd say its the one to beat, especially since itРІР‚в„ўs now just $20/month for the 2 gpu version. So for stills octane for example is great. Furthermore if you donРІР‚в„ўt render animations, you donРІР‚в„ўt really care that much about render farms, or render node licenses that come with the render engine. However in animations, you need atleast 24 frames a second, so it adds up very quickly and speed will be more important. Firstly, if you render stills itРІР‚в„ўs not such a big deal to wait 10 minutes for a final render, even waiting an hour for all the noise to clean up isnРІР‚в„ўt such a big deal. This is important because it affects a couple of things. (Since they change quite often) Animation vs stills

#OCTANE RENDER FARM UPDATE#

I wrote this article quite some time ago, now IРІР‚в„ўm coming back to update it and I decided to add a bit more about what you should pay attention to when picking a render engine, rather than just listing off proРІР‚в„ўs and cons. This article is my personal opinion, this question comes up a lot, so IРІР‚в„ўm going to try break it down here.

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