Is this resolved with Octane V3?

Seems in 2.24.2 R1 there is a hardcoded limit of 1024 Samples for Render Layer Mask Passes, can anyone confirm this?

Just to get the color from XParticles to Octane would be huge. Fingers crossed

If one activates the Override Kernel Settings in the Render Settings Windows, the value for the Shader Render Size in the seperate Octane Render Settings Windows seems to be overwritten with the standard lower value. But it's not possible to set the Shader Render Size in the Overwrite Kernel ...

It did, thanks again. It would be nice if we could have more options in the Object Tag for including and excluding objects from AO, Reflection etc.

Ok, figured it out myself. Thanks very much again Kerem.

Thanks for your suggestion Kerem, I am not sure if I understood the second part of your answer.
Could you provide a screenshot or a file for clarification. Thanks.

Is it possible to exclude objects from Reflection?
If not, is it possible to have an environmental reflection on the Shader Level
instead on the scene level?

I have an empty white room, which inhabits a highly reflective object and in
order to get some interesting reflections I want to mix in an ...

Maybe that was his issue, but what you can clearly see in the screenshot, that the
temperature values aren't listed in the correct order. It's a minor Bug but this
is also true with the latest version I use 2.12.2.

Thanks for the heads up abstrax, it's good to know that this is not overlooked