It's been a while, but I figured I should post back here to report our findings:

It was a long journey trying every method we could think of, but in the end, the FBX support with the rigging just doesn't work that well at least in the version listed in the original post. Breaking the geometry ...

I've used a demo of the Maya plugin a a couple years ago and I'm not entirely certain what all it does, but I know it definitely uses Octane to render directly within Maya if I recall correctly. It way very well even have orbx support.
I would, of course, try the demo again first.

As per your ...

So, good news and not completely bad news!

Your geometry cache suggestion worked perfectly in the small scale test!
The not so great news is that the cache files are enormous (shy of 10gb collectively for 100 frames out of a sequence containing roughly 4,000 frames) and I would absolutely need a ...

Okay, I tried something different with the quick select set.
I realized I had not actually selected the geometry properly after sitting and thinking about that last warning from Maya.

The quick select set was re-done by selecting the proper meshes and that set was selected in the export and it ...

Thank you again for your continuing assistance.

After returning home today, I tried as you suggested, and I found that Group 1 with animation disabled still scatters the geometry. This is with the geometry and skeleton selected and none of the other scene components. If I only export the geometry ...

Thank you for your response!

You've given me a few insights and while I haven't tested all of them, it's worth noting that I haven't found any scale issues on the joints, except the root controller which was scaled for the sake of keeping things a manageable size in dimension. There's some odd ...

Hello!

I'm unsure if this is the proper forum, but is the closest related I could find.

Introduction:
For the past few days, I've been wrestling with a problem importing an FBX file containing a lengthy animated rigged character from Maya 2016 into Octane Standalone v4.

The character is comprised ...