Octane X Classic 4+

Name: Octane X Classic
Rating: 2.4 (61 reviews)
Author: OTOY inc.

Fast, unbiased GPU rendering

OTOY inc.

- 2.4 • 61 Ratings

- Free

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Description

Octane X is the world’s first and fastest unbiased, spectrally-correct GPU production renderer for macOS, built from the ground up for maximum performance on Apple Metal and Apple Silicon, and empowering artist workflows across visual effects, motion graphics, gaming, design, concept art and architectural visualization.

The complete manual is available here:
https://docs.otoy.com/StandaloneH_STA/StandaloneManual.htm

Some introductory material is available on our forum:
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=51

Octane X is optimized for maximum rendering performance on AMD Polaris, Vega and Navi GPUs as well as Intel SkyLake GPUs on macOS Big Sur 11.1 and later.

This exclusive version of Octane X for the App Store features multi-GPU rendering, network rendering (through an additional Octane Enterprise Render Node license) and Apple M1 native GPU rendering support.

Octane X accelerates modern creative workflows with ACES, OCIO and deep pixel EXR rendering, a powerful node-based material, shader and scene graph editor, and the industry’s most advanced production ready AI Denoiser.

Oct 10, 2022

Version 10.0.3.8.1

Changed name to Octane X Classic.

2.4 out of 5

61 Ratings

How the Heck do we use this?

There is laughably very little about how to use this software. Is this just a render engine? How do I connect it to my 3D software? The manual is so dense with seemingly little explanation.

Pretty bummed.

Spent hours trying to make any version work

I saw octane was free on mac, so I downloaded this version. It didn't work within Cinema 4D, so I went online to see what version I could try. I spent hours downloading and trying various versions. Now I assume there's no trial for any octane product that's easy to use.
I can't imagine who'd want to use a stand-alone renderer either.
And the app isn't really trying to explain its purpose.
OTOY should do some market research. And then the leaders of the company should actually try to listen. I'm gonna ignore Octane for a long while after this.

Confusing

While it wasn't intuitive, I managed to get Octane X installed, created my account, and it's running. But there seems to be no documentation for this version of Octane on the company's doc site. Is Octane X the same as OctaneRender Standalone Edition? I have no idea. Nor do I see any way to bridge the gap between Cinema 4D and this version of Octane which exists without a C4D plugin.

So, yeah, I'm confused. Gonna close it up and come back in a month to see if anything has improved.

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Seller

OTOY Inc.

Size

664.5 MB