I wonder if Octane can be used with Vue, as well?

I had a quick look a while back, but I don't know Vue well enough.  If you can export to OBJ you can import into Octane.  In theory Vue could be linked nicely into the Octane instancing system, but it would be a big development effort, and I'm not sure the Vue userbase is sufficent at the moment to support that level of investment of time.

How does the Octane distributed rendering work, anyway? Is it self sufficient, or do you need a render manager?

It's all done on your video card(s).  With the right motherboard (and powersupply) I think you can have up to 3 NVidia cards, which would have an incredible throughput.  There is no facility to send different renders to different PCs.

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