When I try to get Object Layer Color to work and get out the color I set in the Object context, the Object Layer Color node, although connected in the UI seems to be doing nothing to the rendering. It acts as if there was no node connected.
It works in the older version of Blender Octane e.g ...

Hey Lino,

thank you for getting back to me,

I had to install the patchelf package first.

I tried patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN/'lib ./OctaneServer

Probably because there is no "lib" folder in the directory. The .so files sharing the same folder with the OctaneServer
The attached screenshot shows ...

Hey lino,

sorry for getting back to you so late. The answer notifications both went into my spam folder 😇
Also I seem to have mixed up some versions in my original message.

Basically what I am saying is, the Octane Server for Linux that came with a .run package that could be installed works just ...

Hey there.
I downloaded The new Blender " OctaneBlender Addon 2026.1 - 31.3 Beta Release (for Blender 5.0) [TEST] "

I can extract and run the " octane_addon_server-studio-31.3-beta.zip " on Windows just fine.

But on my Linux Fedora 43, when I extract and run " OctaneStudio_for_BlenderOctaneAddon ...

I tried opening the DB in this version on multiple machines. And I was greeted with an error:
When I tried the older version 2023.1 28.10 everything was working.

I´m working on Windows 11 10.0.22361 Build 22361.

It's hard to say what is causing the issue without having the scene. If you could upload it to check we could have a look and maybe find the reason for such issue.

I understand that.
The scene is meant for further use with my patreon, so I can´t share it publicly unfortunately.
Though I gave it ...

I found a workaround for now.

Somehow I got the ORBX export working. Not sure why it was not working in my earlier test.

In the standalone there are also no load times between frames. So I could render a 150 frame sequence in about 14 minutes.
Whereas if I would have done this though Blender, it ...

Hi Raphael,

do you have some modifiers in your scene? Subdivisions or other that alter 3d meshes? In my experience when rendering animations in Octane for Blender this was always a factor that slowed down frame advancing as Blender has to "flatten" those objects before rendering every frame ...

Alright.

I made some further tests. Same exact scene on 27.17 and 28.6
I took some time to adjust all the shaders to 27.17 then saved it and opened it back up in 28.6 to do the test there.

Scene in 27.17 send to render. Time in between frames, still a rather long 60 seconds .
Though massively ...

Great to see you dabble into Blender as well, Raphael :)

Maybe this is linked to the issue that compiling scenes takes incredibly long compared to V27.16. The scenes are compiled every times I start the preview or final rendering. In a direct comparison V28.x take 8 times longer than 27.16 (32s ...