Octane Render

Octane Render is the world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally correct GPU render engine, delivering quality and speed unrivaled by any production renderer on the market.



OTOY is proud to advance the state of the art once again with the release of OctaneRender – available now – with groundbreaking machine learning techniques, out of core geometry support, and massive 10-100x speed gains in the scene graph.

Highlights

Volumetric Rendering
It supports rendering of particulate matter such as clouds, smoke, fog, and fire with varying densities and introduces a unique native primitive type for incredibly detailed micro-surface displacement volumes and surfaces required to render photo-realistic natural and organic materials.

Deep Pixel Rendering
It adds deep pixel rendering support as well as live connecting of DCC and compositing apps through the Octane Renderer for Nuke® plugin.

OSL
The app supports Open Shading Language, enabling artists to create their shaders and bring custom shaders from other software directly into the projects.

Live Texture Baking
It supports unbiased GPU texture baking (UV or volumetric) of global illumination, spherical harmonics and, 8D light fields.

Speed
Leveraging the power of the GPU, It can render final quality images 10x to 50x faster than CPU-based, unbiased rendering engines. That means, no more "get up and wait" in your workflow.

Interactivity
The app's on-screen viewport is the final render. Any changes to the scene are instantly updated on the screen allowing you to tweak any setting and view the results immediately.

Lighting
It supports HDRI, mesh emitters, IES files, and a planetary sun/sky system. Rotate an HDRI file to position it in your scene, or turn any object into a mesh light by enabling the emission property of the material. With the additional Light Linking and Light Exclusion features, the Render app allows you to manipulate the lighting in a scene, however, you choose.

Materials
It supports subsurface light scattering (SSS), complex IOR, chromatic dispersion, and absorption to create some of the best materials in the industry. Use the node editor to create complex materials from procedural textures, or quickly pull material from OctaneLive Material Database. In addition to OSL Textures, It supports metallic materials, toon shaders, and allows importing complex PBR textures through a universal uber material node.

Toon Shading
Turn your photorealistic renders into dynamic, toon-shaded scenes with just one material application.

Octane Denoiser
Render noise-free images in a fraction of the time with OctaneRender’s denoising implementation with huge advantages over OptiX™.

Out of Core Geometry
It can render fast out-of-core geometry from CPU memory, with minimal speed loss, even across multiple GPUs - a first for an unbiased GPU renderer.

Key Features

MoI 3D: Included with every Studio+ subscription, MoI 3D is the leading hard surface 3D modeling tool.

Cascadeur: Experience powerful, groundbreaking AI-driven character animation and dynamics with Cascadeur.

World Creator: All subscriptions provide access to the latest version of World Creator for Octane, exporting exclusively to ORBX format.

Render Network: Utilize the massive parallel processing power of the Render Network's decentralized GPUs for cloud rendering, now supporting native Cinema 4D files. (More info)

Architron®: Advanced polygonal, NURBS, and Boolean modeling creation system for interiors, exteriors, and architectural visualization. (More info)

Sculptron and Vectron: Enjoy temporal GPU sculpting and generative art tools, with Vectron VFX packs, NEW Vectron Tools, and Vectron Boole from Machina-infinitum included in all Studio+ subscriptions.

LightStage MetaFaces and MetaBody Scans: The Academy-Award-winning digital human scans feature fully posable body and clothing assets. (More info)

Unlimited Network Rendering: All Studio+ subscriptions include 10+ Render Node licenses with no GPU limits per machine.

Octane X: The 2024 features are optimized and rebuilt from the ground up for Metal-RT, Apple XDR displays, and Apple Silicon devices, utilizing Apple M-Series and newer GPUs running MacOS and iPadOS.

What's New

NVIDIA RTX Acceleration
Experience 2-5x faster render speeds on NVIDIA raytracing GPUs with RTX hardware acceleration. Speed gains are most notable in complex scenes and can be benchmarked using RTX OctaneBench®.

Layered Materials
Construct complex materials with the new layered material system, allowing up to 8 layers on a base layer. New nodes include layered material, diffuse layer, specular layer, sheen layer, metallic layer, and layer group nodes, enabling physically-based material recreation.

Spectral Random Walk SSS and Hair Material
Create ultra-realistic skin and scattering materials with the new Random Walk medium. The Spectral Hair Material supports various coloring modes and roughness parameters for photorealistic digital characters.

VECTRON™
Generate infinite procedurally created scenes, volumes, and geometry with Vector-Polygon geometry, bypassing meshes and volumes and using zero GPU VRAM.

SPECTRON™
Create procedurally driven volumetric lighting with the Spectron™ module, featuring tools like spot lights with blockers, barn doors, and gels.

OSL and Procedural Vertex Displacement
Render procedural and OSL vertex displacement (height or vector) with a robust system free from the old displacement limitations. Mix/layer vector/height displacement maps using the new displacement mixer node.

OSL Shaders for Volume Textures
Utilize any textures for volumes, expanding beyond static colors for absorption, scattering, and emission in volumes.

Pricing

Annual subscription - €19.99/month (Billed yearly)

Monthly subscription - €23.95/month (Billed monthly)

OctaneRender® Studio+ Subscriptions allow artists and studios full access to OTOY’s acclaimed OctaneRender VFX software and ecosystem with Unlimited network rendering (10+ nodes) on a flexible month plan.

System Requirements

• Runs on Microsoft® Windows® 8, 10, and 11 (64-bit only).
• Requires a current NVIDIA graphics driver

The demo version has the following limitations:

• Render resolution output is locked to 1000×600 pixels
• Project and render output cannot be saved
• Online LiveDB material database functionality is not included
• Render output contains water marks (Octane logo and stripes)
• No network rendering

PROS

• High-Quality Renders: Physically accurate, photo-realistic images.
• Speed: Utilizes GPU acceleration for fast rendering times.
• Real-Time Feedback: Interactive preview for quick adjustments.
• Integration: Compatible with major 3D software (e.g., Blender, Cinema 4D).
• Material Library: Extensive and versatile materials and textures.

CONS

• Hardware Dependency: Requires powerful GPUs, potentially costly.
• Learning Curve: Can be complex for beginners.
• Limited CPU Support: Primarily optimized for NVIDIA GPUs.
• Cost: Subscription-based pricing might be expensive for some users.
• Resource Intensive: High VRAM usage, demanding on system resources.