Sorry - but that's really no excuse.
Since so many months there's no single feature added to the plugin. Since so many months (years) the plugin-users ask for support of strand-based hair.
We always had problems like the ones I have described.
Freezing of the plugin, no proper function of the live ...

Hun73rdk_1 wrote: you do know the that coder left and a new one is in place and trying to look trough all the code and the outdated livedb is not top priority no one is using it other than you 2

I know.
I didn't know you took a survey of all the OcDS users about this topic, tho. Must have missed the memo.

Close down daz go into C:/users/*username*/OctaneRender/Data/ and delete OctaneRender_livedb2.oczdb go back into daz and in octane window press update under live db and turn off auto update.
And try and see if its updates and download the db again

Thank you - I did that before.
The LiveDB was ...

I've posted some quesions about the plugin 2023.1.1.306 in DAZ Studio 4.22.0.1.

1. It's not possible to download any materials from the Live DB in DAZ studio. The texture-slot is empty and the material is rendered in black.

2. I can't acess my materials-preset anymore. There not a single material ...

I've posted some quesions about the plugin 2023.1.1.306 in DAZ Studio 4.22.0.1.

1. It's not possible to download any materials from the Live DB in DAZ studio. The texture-slot is empty and the material is rendered in black.

2. I can't acess my materials-preset anymore. There not a single material ...

Thank you!

Hi Toby,
I'm using DAZ Studio version 4.21.0.5 and Octane Plugin version 2022.1.211.PRIME on my Windows 10 machine.
So I installed the version 2022.1.211.PRIME on my Win11 machine as well, and everything seems to work fine.
This seems to be a problem with the versions 2022.1.1.212.PRIME and above ...

Hi,
I recently installed DS and the Octane plugin (2022.1.1.212) on a new machine (Win11).
While I could download the material previews I got some messages in the debug log:
2023-06-30 17:25:16.017 11432 b2022.1.1.212 Could not download preview: 2754 (WARNING)
2023-06-30 17:26:29.934 11432 b2022.1 ...

Hey y'all. So I had sent BK a message saying we're all concerned with development of the plugin thus far and this is the response I got.

"Hi Sorel,

Thanks so much for the follow-up.
We have escalated this to Otoy and our upper management that there have been no bug fixes except engine updates ...

I hope there will be any new features for the plugin soon - otherwise I gess I'll have to look for some alternatives or maybe just use IRay.
I'm so unhappy for the missing support of strand based hair - there are some very interesting new items for my Genesis characters and I can't use them because ...