Seems there is a recent and active discussion about the temporary/cached textures and ORBX etc.

viewtopic.php?f=114&t=71165&p=361266&hi ... he#p361266

For me, though I'm not using LW, but rather Maya and Standalone... I just found 16GB of converted textures, and some "orm" and "orbx" files in %AppData%\..\local\OctaneRender\Cache

would be swell if this could be re-located somewhere else, without having to resort to folder links.

I just tested ...

I get that the licensing model is in-flux, at least in regards to acquiring, essentially, an owned license.

Otoy has been a very non-douchy company when it comes to licensing. And with many of the big companies strong-arming customers in to essentially paying around 2x as much as previously for ...

I've been extremely interested in figuring out an eGPU setup. I have a Dell 7710 Laptop so I can't even swap out the internal GPU. Would love to know how this gets solved.

FYI - I just tried Sketchup 2018 with Octane Render for SketchUp 3.07.0.14.

I have SU 2017 installed, and reinstalled the latest octane plugin.

I then copied the plugin stuff from the 2017 plugin folder over to the same folder in 2018.

The file:
C:\Users\<...>\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp ...

A. Win 7
B. Quadro M5000M
C. System RAM 32GB
D. Nvidia driver version 376.33
E. OctaneRender Standalone version, 3.05
F. OctaneRender for Maya 3.05.3-9.41 (same problem in 9.3?)
G. Autodesk Maya 2017 Update 3

create a poly-sphere
assign a blinn shader to it
adjust some parameters so that it has ...

Can you export the model to octane, and post it? or just export the relevant snippet?

:)

...I'd even be happy with broad strokes approx % done since announcing.
something to keep people's interest piqued, appetite whetted, without growing weary of checking again and again only to find nothing.

Something is better than silence. To avoid the negativity, minimum progress update ...

In a nutshell: What do you want? Some rough estimate when things are planned to be released or total silence until the release?
I think it's good to give some info on development, so that customers see what's going on and that things are going on, like "feature X is now done and will be introduced ...

If you guys canno't achieve the job in the deadline that YOU gave then just stop speaking...

Simple as that.

While I don't share quite the same level of misgivings as stated in the previous post. I do believe a lot more transparency on efforts and such would go a long way in keeping people ...