Features

octarender includes a comprehensive suite of features designed to provide flexible, native support for complex artistic workflows the platform minimizes manual pipeline preparation by handling scene evaluation and dependency packaging automatically core compatibility blender versions the platform actively detects and natively supports multiple production versions of blender blender 4 5 blender 5 0 blender 5 1 supported render engines octarender supports production standard internal deployment for both core blender rendering engines cycles and eevee blender feature integration full add on support the platform natively handles custom add ons within the network environment, from utility action tools to complex generative systems the client automatically parses your scene file to detect active add ons, drivers, custom nodes, and linked libraries, pre selecting the correct runtime flags before pushing the job to the farm asset & dependency handling octarender automatically traces and consolidates project assets it aggregates local resources; including textures, geometry node structures, openvdb files, and localized simulation caches cloud integrations dependencies hosted on cloud storage networks (such as dropbox) are automatically identified and fetched during parsing validation all assets are packaged into a unified pipeline upload bundle if a critical dependency is broken or missing locally, the client throws a warning prior to submission custom ocio color management the system scans your local workspace configuration for opencolorio (ocio) implementations if custom color spaces, luts, or institutional pipelines (such as aces) are used, the custom configs are automatically bundled and mirrored across all rendering nodes simulation & fluid support distributed nodes natively support heavy physics baking and simulation caches for toolsets like flip fluids, the client packages the baked domain caches directly with the job file, ensuring complex simulations compute accurately across independent network segments multi layer full pipeline support for multi layer exr output setups arbitrary render layers and arbitrary output variables (aovs); such as ambient occlusion, cryptomattes, or diffuse passes routed via file output nodes are preserved and compiled as intended output formats frames are rendered in png, jpeg or exr format other features persistence engine increasing rendering speeds across node by 30% multi gpu and dynamic scaling in real time real time analytics and monitoring thumbnail & exr preview generation per scene / per view layer render previews single sign on authentication multi version blender detection and support live logging fast upload and download via addon and intefrace 7 day render retention and many others