Follow-Up for anyone else searching online for a fix:

Apparently, C4D's native dynamics engine won't send your cached simulations to render.

If you've baked and cached any dynamics, clear the cache and then your render will work. The problem is now your perfectly art-directed dynamics systems will ...

Great question!

I just checked the Standard Renderer and the same problem is occurring. So It's probably not Octane and I'll have to inquire about it on the Maxon forums.

But still, I wonder why it properly sends to the Octane Live Window but not the picture viewer?

Thanks for your help!!

Hey there! This is a simple but also very strange problem. Basically, my scene has (cached and baked) dynamics of a skeleton exploding. The Octane Preview looks good, reflecting exactly what I see in the C4d Workspace. But when I send to the Picture Viewer in C4D, none of the dynamics seem to carry ...

Hello there!

I'm rendering an asteroid field scene with a moderate amount of object particles (~1000), Plus a couple moderate-poly spaceship models. The scene will no longer preview OR render after the scene got to a certain size. My RAM spikes up to 98% and holds there forever basically until I ...