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!!! THIS IS THE BETA VERSION OF OctaneRender PLUGIN, IT IS ...

Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new OctaneRender™ for Maya®
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Autodesk® Maya®.

Maya® Version Requirements

This release will work with Maya® Versions 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 64 ...

I think I can implement a setting for Octane, that will allow you to choose what default you want for gamma value in textures. That should workaround this Maya's issue.
Just wait for the upcoming 24.8 version, should be ready soon...

You can easily check that this is how Maya works: just open your saved .ma scene file with a text editor and search for some texture name that had a default value of gamma when you saved it. You will not see a line for that texture where Maya saves the "gamma" plug value. But you will see these ...

Maya saves all values that are not default . So if at the time of saving the default is 1.0 and your set value is 1.0 - it will not be saved in the scene file, and when reading the scene it will be set to the current default (if current default is 2.2 it will be set to 2.2). But if during saving ...

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Currently the default values for Maya gamma plugs are back to 2.2, to make very old scenes open with proper values.
Because there is a problem with how Autodesk saves plug values in Maya scenes: if the value is default at the time of saving a scene, Maya does not write the value to the scene file at ...

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!!! THIS IS THE BETA VERSION OF OctaneRender PLUGIN, IT IS ...

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NOTE: The software in this forum thread is not 100% reliable, this is a development build and is meant for testing by experienced octane users. If you are a new octane user, we recommend to use the current stable release.

!!! THIS IS THE BETA VERSION OF OctaneRender PLUGIN, IT IS ...

Forum rules:
NOTE: The software in this forum thread is not 100% reliable, this is a development build and is meant for testing by experienced octane users. If you are a new octane user, we recommend to use the current stable release.

!!! THIS IS THE BETA VERSION OF OctaneRender PLUGIN, IT IS ...