Oh God Nimpsy, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I was looking all over the web for this and found a huge amount of solutions that were somewhat weird and imperfect. Yours is comprehensive and ideal!

Hello,

I too am looking for a way to get this working.

In my case I want to render liquids with MB. The geometry supplier is Houdini so I should have no problem configuring it the way Octane wants. However, I can't find any reference to how Octane reads the vertex speeds. Does anyone have ...

Thank you very much for the tip with trying the older plugins - that seems to be working!

But which problems did you run into with the older versions that made you change to the newer ones? Just so that I am aware...

Hello,

After thinking about the investment for couple of months I finally decided to buy Octane Renderer today. So I went ahead and downloaded it right after and installed both the standalone and the plugin for my (respective) R18 version of Cinema. After trying a couple of restarts, I realized ...