Agree with Fake Pilot here. I'm constantly forgetting to rename and remove the space before working with the material. Would be great to parse the name on import and swap spaces for underscores.

I think Juanjo is the one who's being clear. Your beef should be with SideFX, not him.

Kind of what I figured-thanks.

Not sure if I'm missing this:

In the Maya version of Octane there's an option to choose the refresh delay. Does Octane for Houdini have something similar, or is it just refreshing as fast as it possibly can? I ask this because I have a client-faced application of Octane where I need the refresh to ...

Hallelujah! That did the trick!

I'll still see if I can bundle up the scene when the project's over so you can track down the issue.

OK, I'll give that a try and I'll also bundle up the scene and send it to you.

I have this problem with every scene. As soon as motion blur (internal) is activated, the Batch Render fails.

Ah, my apologies. Failed to read the fine print on the release notes:)

OK, so a quick update:

Installed the 5.6 version of the plugin and everything works fine. Tried to install the 7.8 again afterward and got the same situation (in Maya 2015) : The plugin files go missing. I get a message during launch that Maya went looking for the Octane plugin files and couldn't ...

Commercial version. I had it installed previously (also commercial version but unlicensed–I was using it to verify some scripting control before purchase). At that time it showed up and loaded even though it wasn't licensed.

Yesterday downloaded latest Octane and Octane Maya, installed, licensed ...