Yep, that would be sweet. Just ran into the same problem.

Hey Robert, nice to see you here.
Why don't you install the latest versions? 2.14

Because it's only a test version... but you're right. I will at least try it out now.

There we go! I guess it was the CUDA driver after all!
Even though it said "No newer CUDA driver available", I could manually ...

I've just installed the v2.12.2 (both standalone and C4D plugin) on my Mac.
I am running the latest CUDA drivers.
Live Viewer render anymore. Only black.

I also tried downgrading to v2.06.1 - same problem.

Am I missing something obvious here?
Could this be an license activation issue?

Thanks in ...

So, I would have to buy an extra license in order to set up a "render-only" machine?

For quality, need to set maxsamples of deep info kernel to higher values.

This is what I did. I set both samples (Direct Lighting + Deep Channel) to 2048, but only the main pass was rendered like that. The multi passes appear to ignore the sample settings and render lower.

Last, also get same ...

I have a problem with the quality of the multi passes.

When I render via Directlighting with high samples and activate the multi passes as described before, the multi passes are rendered with low samples (even when I set them high as well in the Deep Channel settings):

samples.jpg

What am I ...

So, like this?
Did I miss something?
Edit

Oops. "Alpha from Directlighting" has nothing to do with "Deep Channel".

I'm starting to understand the general way the Octane engine is integrated...

Is it correct that basically all multipass channels like reflection, specular, shadows etc. don't work when I render an Octane scene, because the Octane engine lives in its own world inside C4D?

If so, will the Deep ...

I second bphoton's request for true object buffers.

The main downside of the current workflow is that it is based on materials rather than on objects. If I have two objects with the same material, I need to make a duplicate of that material in order to get a different material ID.

Thank you, sir!