Located in Render Properties, the Octane Server rollout provide general controls on handling the render resources (Figure 1).


Octane Server

Figure 1: Octane Server Parameters


Octane Server Parameters

Resource Cache System - Cache the textures and geometries in RAM so to make the viewport rendering initialization faster.

Dirty Resource Detection Strategy - The strategy used in detecting whether a mesh is dirty so a reloading is required. A mesh will be marked as dirty and reloaded once the edit mode is on.

Clear - Clear the Resource Cache.

Render all meshes as - Overrides the Object Type for all meshes during rendering.

Enable Real-time in viewport rendering - A faster viewport rendering mode. 

Final Render Image Type - Render(F12) as LDR or HDR image if applicable.

Maximize Instancing - If enabled, Octane will try to collect and group instances into scatter as much as possible.

Clay Mode - Renders the image in either a Gray clay or color clay mode. 

Render Priority - Render priority that should be used for rendering.

Subsample Mode - Controls rendering speed by using a larger or smaller set of sampling. 

Show Octane Node Graph - Show Octane NodeGraph (VIEW Mode Only. Please DO NOT ADD or DELETE nodes.).

Open OctaneDB - Shows the Local and Live DB.

Show Octane Log - Octane Log for system tracking.

Show Octane Viewport - Show Octane Viewport (Suggest VIEW Mode Only. Camera navigation in the viewport would not synchronize to Blender viewport.).

Device Preferences - Show the GPU resources and settings.

Network Preferences - Opens the panel to setup network rendering.

Activation state - Allows you to sign in or sign out an Octane license.