Let me just add my 2 cents here regarding Octane/Blender vs E-Cycles speeds and addon compatibility issues:

• Due to the fact that Octane/Blender uses Octane materials while E-Cycles uses Cycles/Blender materials you can never have an “exact” or “identical” scene comparison, but you sure can have a ...

Should Octane/Blender users expect a v4.04 update for Blender 2.79?

Which version of Octane we will be using when the OC for Blender 2.8 is released? Because of the Otoy's All-access and free-tier announcement, if its Octane 2018.x/2019.x, will perpetual license users get access to the OC for Blender 2.8 or have to pay the subscription fee monthly? Please don't ...

Thank you for your reply -- I restarted twice, and now it works.

(Yes, I'm using Nvidia's latest driver.)
I've found that "un-checking" the Octane addon, save the user preferences, then restarting Blender and "re-checking/Installing" it fixed the server error for me. Also I found that the server ...

No, from my experience with v4 the networked GPUs should be available immediately once you've restarted after the initial setup. Sounds like a network communication issue.

OB_VolumeScatter Lighting.jpg

Here is the Octane Volume Scatter setup using a cube and a UV Sphere that has a Texture Emission as the light source, scene is attached (Octane/Blender v.308.5).
*Note: You put your scatter volume over your light source or sources that you wish to appear volumetric ...

Ever since the release of Blender Octane v4.0 I've constantly had problems with the Denoiser causing server errors when rendering out animations. The problem got worse with each subsequent v4.0+ build. I checked drivers and uninstalled Octane/Blender with no improvement, untill I removed my Blender ...

My 2-cents here.
1)Main Machine:
-*To insure a clean Octane Addon install in Blender un-check the Octane Addon in Blender, save preference and close Blender, then re-open Blender and re-check Octane Addon to activate.
- make sure Octane/Blender and the Corresponding Octane Server are of the same ...

Trying to set this up right, but theres literally ZERO information online about it-

Can anyone confirm or deny whether or not Dynamic Paint works with Octane? I seem to have the Image Sequence painted, with correct brush data, but I can't seem to find a way to get it to show up on the texture ...

Just wanted to thank Dev that work on Octane/Blender...the Denoiser is worth the purchase alone IMO. Excellent job on the update