Receiving this error due to my firewall.
I disabled my firewalls and this worked, but I can't leave them disabled.
I have my computers in pretty strict lockdowns.

Do you know which exception to the firewall which must be enabled to allow this through?
I suppose I can always uinstall and reinstall ...

So simply put, try to move/convert all previous Octane Materials over to the newer "Universal Material"?

I have older "metal" materials that I used for projects many years ago.
The more recent Octane plugin introduced newer materials with additional slots, in particular the "Material Layer."
I'm confused as to how to properly "translate" the old materials into newer ones yet still received similar ...

I'm experiencing random crashes when rebuilding in the preview window. Simple scenes which worked in the past. I'm thinking this may be nvidia driver related. Tried to see if the latest game driver "fixed" some things. Also crashes with Arnold materials and had to turn off "progressive rendering." I ...

I'm using 2021.1 - 12.09 and I'm missing textures in my viewport.

Why have the materials in he mat editor changes substantially? In opening an older file, If I apply a material and check "show shaded map in viewport", nothing happens.
It's extremely confusing because why is there a "filename" and ...

Hi. It doesn't matter if I use the latest Beta versions or move back down.
I used to be able to adjust the camera Response in the modify panel but I can't get it to work any more.
My frame buffer (right click open octane viewport) is making previous scenes all look washed out compared to save images ...

Pardon me but what exactly do you mean by 3D Transform?

Hi. I'm curious but don't understand the newer Forest Pack Support settings and what all of these items do/correspond to.
I've tried looking online for documentation and in the forums, but there's too much information to sort through.
I have the latest FP installed and running 2nd to latest Octane ...

Where is "grey image texture"?

I've encountered major issues with FP (using the latest version of FP) as well. Max is suddenly hanging in a very bad way.
I went down one version and it's acting a little bit better, but not by much.

I thought it was something else at first (video card drivers, potential viruses, bad scripts ...