I am making some research on Cycles as I find C4D/Octane is lacking lots of things that Blender has: a very lively community and loads of plugins being the most interesting. I also find that my Octane landscape renders lack contrast and are difficult to get perfectly realistic.
Anyway, there are ...

Some explanation found in the documentation on the Kitbash website:

The following Kits are currently not available in Cargo:

Mini Kt: Neo City

Otoy Special Edition Kits

The Otoy Special Edition Kits are complimentary for Octane Subscribers as part of a special promotion from Otoy. This ...

It seems I found a bug with Octane scatter in this release.
I am using a scatter on a small number of objects (35) on a terrain.

When I click on the keep away dial, C4d freezes and the CPU starts to work at 100% until I stop the task.

If it can help, I got a bug report on my last crash. You will find it attached .

Jeah its really strange. Iam on R19 - newest Version - newest Nvidia Driver.
I tried to reinstall octane - but the problem is still there. When deleting a Node, c4d freezes.

Same thing here.
Using Octane-for-C4D-V3.07-Test3a on C4d R19. Latest Nvidia drivers on a GeForce 970.

The problem also ...

It works... but you have to make sure the color profile is set to linear, otherwise the objects do not line up with the displaced surface correctly. Thanks for pointing me to the right direction!

As for the edge artifacts, just resize your displacement map to 1.002 and they should disappear.

I ...

existe wrote:I ended up using standard Octane exports within 3DC for the C4D Octane plugin with no issues.

So there is probably a difference in the plugins or something that I missed. I will try to render my little robot in the standalone version to see how it works.

I made some tests lately and two tutorials on this subject: one for 3dCoat 4.5 and the other for 3dCoat 4.7
http://www.virtual-lands-3d.com/from-3dcoat-to-octane-render.html

3dCoat 4.7 has a specific workflow for Octane Render, but it does not work well if you use the metallness maps it generates ...