Screenshot from 2020-10-06 15-54-06.png Seams to have the same problems as the other.
I've installed Octane Free Tier 2020.1.3 on Linux + Server and I got "No Render-Server at address 127.0.0.1 after I did a first render test. It's a pity since the previous version Free Tier was working perfectly ...

Screenshot from 2020-10-06 15-54-06.png Seams to have the same problems as the other.
I've installed Octane Free Tier 2020.1.3 on Linux + Server and I got "No Render-Server at address 127.0.0.1 after I did a first render test. It's a pity since the previous version Free Tier was working perfectly ...

WWDC 2020 ( Apple developers conference) is scheduled for 22 June. The beta timing I think is in line with a possible presentation of Octane X on that event...

No, the inputting of metal IOR in Octane Blender isn't the most intuitive. I think it's mostly due to some limitations in Blender's node system (no "tuple" type, etc).

I while ago I got tired of collecting the IOR values and entering them into the inputs etc, so I made a "library" of it: https ...

grimm wrote:Awesome, but that is not intuitive at all.

I totally agree with you and was good that putting together our brains we figured it out! Thanks for the help!

You don't need to worry about i, it's for the incident ray. N and K are needed though and I noticed that the Blender plugin is missing the two fields for this, unlike stand alone. Probably a bug, you should put a report for it. You might try to subtract K from N and put that value in the fields ...

There is no information on these in the Blender Plugin manual, but in the stand alone manual there is this...

Metallic Reflection Mode - Changes how OctaneRender® calculates the Metallic material's reflectivity.

Artistic - Uses the albedo color.
IOR + Color - Uses the albedo color and adjusts ...

I'm studying how to implement in the physical correct way the metal materials in Octane for Blender, but unlucky there's not so much documentation of the official online guide about it.

I've tried to follow the official guide about Octane for C4D on YouTube. In C4D there's a field for the K and N ...

Great News!! Look forward for a native Modo/Octane Plugin!! )

+1 for Modo plug-in. Modo is an amazing software, is growing in users and comunity. I think is incredible that Otoy hasn't put a priority on Modo's plug in and gave preference to secondary software as Poser or the old Lightwave...