So it seems my/Octane's issue is a VERY specific one.

In the process of setting up a dummy scene, I realized, as bepeg4d just pointed out, that the Instance Color node was indeed working with XParticles.
The problem only showed up when I decided to emit from a vertex map like I was in my original ...

Could you give us your scene which is locking when we connect it?
Thanks for the response aoktar. I would love to, but this scene is under NDA, is there any way to do it privately?

Maybe I can take some time today to recreate it with some dummy geometry. I'm just under a time crunch, and moved to ...

Every single time I connect an instance color node to my materials, then select particle mode, then insert my Xparticles emitter as the color source; I get an "Octane:<<< Mat checkANDUpdate STARTED >>>" message, and C4D freezes up. I've never had trouble in the past, but I'm not certain that I am ...

This only started happening in 2022.1. Anytime I try to rotate the sky, it won't automatically update in Live Viewer. I get a little green updating message, but nothing changes, and I have to send the scene every time I want to see changes. Hope ya'll can sort it out soon. Pretty big issue for me ...

Been missing for a few days now. I would like to have access to older versions.
Would be great to have it back!

Thanks for the update.

I found a bug pretty quickly that could just be unique to my machine:

Every time I try to use the search-bar in the node editor, I get a spinning wheel and need to end c4d from the task manager. I can get around this by 'tab' searching.

R23
Windows 10
Studio Driver 461.92 ...

Thanks for the update.

I found a bug pretty quickly that could just be unique to my machine:

Every time I try to use the search-bar in the node editor, I get a spinning wheel and need to end c4d from the task manager. I can get around this by 'tab' searching.

R23
Windows 10
Studio Driver 461.92

Thanks for the help guys.

I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to properly use the "CryptoObjectNodeName". Does anyone know how to set this parameter to objects in c4d, or what is it referring to?

I've tried changing the layer id's on octane object tags, the names of the tags themselves ...

Will do it now, thanks!

Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but if not;

Node editor freezes C4D 100% of the time if the window is closed while Live Viewer is running.

Windows 10
plugin version 2020.2
Ryzen 5950x
RTX 3090 x2
Studio Driver Version 461.40