dear f, thank you very much for your quick response! thanks to your hints, I got it sorted out; if exporting from maya 2012, you have to set the conversion units in the octane .obj mesh import preferences to "centimeter to meter"; plus, I set the "fit resolution gate" parameter in maya to "overscan ...

hi folks,
I´m having massive problems exporting the camera from maya 2012 to octane; I only get it to match when I set the units in maya to centimeter and in octane in the preferences "meter to meter". of course, this screws the lighting up and crashes octane; when using the right conversion units ...