Same! I had to switch everything to cinema 4d materials for hardware render to not have black textures.

I got an answer from Maxon, Octane is not to blame!


This is a known issue and has to do with projects being created in older releases of Cinema 4D with custom render settings.

The easy workaround is to delete the custom render settings and then do a ctrl+z to bring them back. That's it!

This is ...

I have this C4D/Octane project that takes SUPER long to save relative to its file size (45 sec for 200 Mb)
Curious to find the cause, I deleted everything in the object manager and saved a copy. The result was still a 126 Mb file.
Then I deleted the render settings, and the result was a 18 Mb file ...

Windows 10 version 1909 (OS Build 18363.959)
2x RTX 2080TI
128 GB Ram
Nvidia Studio Driver v451.48
OCtane Standalone + PLugin version 2020.1.4
Cinema 4D S22.118(RC)

Loading the scene and sending it to Live Viewer will sometimes hang Cinema 4D.
Sending the scene to Picture Viewer will sometimes do ...

A weird thing happened. I already had a scene prepared (C4D Octane Sequence compression.zip), and it was crashing instantaneously as soon as it tried to make the node preview when BC1 + animation was enabled. It crashed just now and I generated the attached bug report as requested.

But now I can't ...

I found out that using BC compression on an image texture that loads a sequence makes all kinds of problems:
Animation is not playing at render time
Node preview will crash C4D

We are having the same problem, using Deadline.
Deactivating the Denoiser fixes the crashing. Thing is, we're rendering a 4000x4000 frame but it still crashes on machines with 64 GB of ram...

I tried using it and failed as well. Too bad because that would be a neat way to distribute render on a renderfarm, everybody rendering to the same network storage.

Bumping into the same issue here, trying to set up Deadline. I am also a syntaxe dumbass but I'll post our solution if our IT team figures it out.

PS. C'est quoi le lien dont vous parlez? Je suis curieux!