Of course one could download Octane and run it on your computer with say C4D or any other number of products from Nuke to Houdini, Motionbuilder to Maya. In reality, OTOY is most keen to offer its own products on the X.IO service, and Octane is the perfect option. This proved not as popular as allowing OTOY to provide a developer service and allow any maker of software to have their product on the cloud. The idea being that as individuals we could have a virtual PC and upload and run anything as if it was local. Your laptop does nothing much other than display the results, the entire UI and all the rendering is interactive but it is all happening somewhere else in the world.Īt the moment the servers are distributed globally allowing fast access from almost anywhere from Australia to Russia, currently only South America and Africa are not fully covered.Ī while ago OTOY came up with the plan to allow you to have a virtual PC on the net. Unlike some demo software that one needs to download, when you go to OTOY’s web site and click on the Octane 3 Demo it opens up a pipe between your computer and a virtual computer on the cloud. The whole of Octane 3 is streamed to you so even on your old Mac Powerbook, you get the fastest GPU going. The second reason is that the whole demo runs remotely in your browser.

Firstly, it shows the new Octane 3 renderer interactively rendering a set of possible scenes including a wavelength dependent scattering render of smoke. The demo itself is really worth exploring for 2 reasons. The demo was launched at SIGGRAPH, but the full version is only now about to get into the hands of artists. One of the more interesting demos online at the moment is the OTOY Octane 3.0 demo.

Octane render farm