A letter to the president of OTOY:

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Dear Jules Urbach,

I certainly understand you are a busy man, and OTOY has some seriously great tech. I do, however, have a serious problem with your product.

I have now purchased your fine Octane render product twice, believing your team to actually be telling the truth when they say they have ...

Thanks. Must've missed that. Please tell me it's as simple as installing and choosing the octane renderer as a lightmapper.

Any word on when this will be available? If I'm already a licensed user of Octane, can I get access to the beta?

I look forward to it.

Please, PLEASE do not instantiate it on launch. Let me choose when to use it. I will use Octane to render only 10% of the time, the other time I will be modeling. Thank-you.

Thanks for the reply. I'm using Camtasia for Windows to record. BTW, Is there a way to edit just ONE material and have it change on all the objects which also have that material?

Here's a serious problem with the geometry NOT transferring correctly from SketchUp to Octane. This represents a pretty big problem. If the smoothing and normals don't transfer correctly then there's not much use for using Octane, no?

Here's the file so you can check it out yourself:

https://dl ...

Another question..

Say I have a single material and it's applied to hundreds of groups. How do I edit the material ONCE in Octane and have it be shown as edited in all those groups?
IOW, Say I have a white default material and want to change it to red plastic in Octane. How is this done? TIA.

And another... super easy to replicate

https://youtu.be/cGvP_Z9a_HQ

Here's another very simple easy to replicate CRASH for this "Stable Beta Release"

[youtube]https://youtu.be/7w1sadQV3Qk[/youtube]