Both my C4D 2024 and C4D 2025 suddenly throw up this error and octane fails to load

Error:Operation timed out after 8001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
res:3

I restated c4D then the machine and router but no success.

the Otoy site says there is no downtown on the subscription server but this ...

thanks for this the effect is different unfortunately so will have to keep the materials built the old way on this project.

I am converting an older project with many SKUs each with a unique material.
The old versions were mixed materials but I am trying to convert to composite material as it is much easier to copy/paste a material and adjust sub materials than a mixed material.

However, the sub material does not have ...

That was my conclusion.

OK. I can not supply the file as the info is under NDA so I rebuilt a basic file to duplicate the effect. Initially it did not duplicate it so then I investigated what the differences were.

The original file was an old project that was originally produced before AOVs. It previously used render ...

OctaneRender for Cinema 4D 2022.1.1-[R4] built for:200 C4D vers:20059

thanks

A simple question but I cant find an obvious answer!

I am outputting files with numerous AOV. the photoshop file contains these multiple times so I have far too may duplicate layers.

I am sure there will be a simple button on/off I am missing but any pointers would be useful.

attached a screen ...

I am using C4Dr20 with octane 20211.4 R4 and there is no universal camera tag in the object manager tag.

Is this because I am using R20 despite being up to date with octane or am I missing something?

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Just turned off 'nested dielectrics' in the pathtracing kernel and it magically all went back to normal

I will investigate priorities further

thanks

I have recently upgraded from 4.05 to the latest subscription version 2021.1.4-(R4)

I have opened up an old job to render out a new copy of a bottle visual I did previously and the specular material acts completely differently.

This is annoying as I want to do some amends and the material seems to ...