OctaneRender® for Unity

Yes. You can increase the number of seats by purchasing through one Unity account, and assigning seats to other intended users. You can assign seats on the “Configure Your Plan” page on the storefront. Just select the users you want to add and enter their Unity account information.

Shortly after your purchase, you will receive an email from Unity Technologies that contains a link to download the OctaneRender plug-in. Click “Download OctaneRender for Unity Installer Scene” within the email to go to the Unity Asset Store. You can download OctaneRender for Unity on that page.

Render speed scales linearly with additional GPUs. Visit the OctaneBench page for a list of GPU performance benchmark results for OctaneRender compatible graphics cards.

Please note the number of concurrent GPUs that are allowed at each license level: 

• Prime: 1 GPU 
• Studio: 2 GPUs 
• Creator: 20 GPUs

You can switch selected plug-ins on a monthly basis through the OctaneRender account portal.

Load your scene in the Unity Editor. Once loaded, you will be prompted to accept an account bridge to link to your Unity account, which will install OctaneRender.

You can explore OctaneBench to get a sense for various GPU performances. OctaneRender requires CUDA cards, and effectively works as far back as the GeForce GTX 970s. You can find a list of hardware suggestions based around different uses of OctaneRender here.

To see your scene in OctaneRender, select PBR Render Target and then hit render. That will open the PBR Viewport and you can see the PBR textures. It’ll take a minute to compile but once it does so, you can move around the scene easily.

The minimum commitment period is an annual term, billed monthly at $20 per month for OctaneRender Studio and $60 per month for OctaneRender Creator.

OctaneRender for Unity is available for Unity 2017.1 and newer.

Studio and Creator both ship with OctaneRender for Nuke and OctaneRender for After Effects. With OctaneRender Studio, you can also choose 1 additional plugin, and with OctaneRender Creator, you can choose up to 3. There are 25+ authoring tools supported by Octane including C4D, 3ds Max, Maya and more. You may also select OctaneRender Cloud.

At the moment, OctaneRender requires NVIDIA technology to run. However, Octane X™ will be built from the ground up on Metal for next-generation MacPro, MacOS, and iOS. A demo of Octane X was presented at WWDC 2019. You can read more here.

The OctaneRender Lightmapper is supported for static lightmap baking.

Not yet. Today, OctaneRender can upgrade the quality of environments and objects; however, real-time rendering in Play or Game Mode still relies on Unity’s renderer. OTOY’s real-time path-tracing engine Brigade will be integrated into Octane, resulting in a vast improvement both in scene load times and dynamic, real-time, path-traced rendering.

Partially. The OctaneRender Recorder lets you save batch renders from Play Mode, allowing you to compile multiple timelines into one sequence. However, it is not yet possible to play through the game and record a session smoothly. The speed of this process can be dramatically increased by increasing the number of GPUs with Creator’s 20 GPU limit.

Yes. OctaneRender is a path-traced render engine. It is possible to render individual frames from Timeline generated with Cinemachine, and now Play Mode can support multi-timeline sequences being rendered by OctaneRender in one batch.

Please visit OTOY’s Help Desk where you can submit a ticket for targeted assistance, explore the OctaneRender for Unity manual, check out the guides, and read more technical FAQs; the Forum is also a great resource for guidance from the OctaneRender Community.

You own your content!

Please see our OctaneRender Cloud support page for information about creating an account and getting started uploading renders to ORC.