Thank you for the update.

Added output type to Image Texture and OSL Texture nodes
Could you please explain what this update actually means and how it should be applied?
Without any additional explanation, it is difficult to understand how to use this new feature.


Very easy, if you for ...

Hi all,

This build contains OctaneRender 2026.4 and a couple of bugfixes.
We are aiming to release a 2.0.0 next with new features and the upcomming OctaneRender 2027 Beta soon-ish

To see what the future holds, check out our Trello!
https://trello.com/b/1HYU24R0/octanec4d

2026.4 - 1.9.4 plugin ...

Working in C4D Octane 2026.3 Build 1.9.3.

My material stack uses a Layered Material with a basecoat, metallic flakes, a tinted binder layer, and then a Specular Material Layer as the main clearcoat. For realistic clearcoat microscratches, I need to control these three properties BY TEXTURE MAP ...

I'm struggling to get OCIO working with other config file / environment variable.
I don't have any error, the plugin just ignore to use the view that I choose.
I see them all in the menu, but in the live viewer nothing changes.
I tried with the imager and also with the AOV node system.

It's ...

Hi all,

This is a hotfix release for 1.9.1 with OctaneRender 2026.3 .

The main changes in this build are the new Material Link node, Octane 2026.3 and splitting the Octane settings between Scene Settings and Plugin Settings.
The split was done because certain settings were not stored in the scene ...

Edovech87 wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 8:33 pm I tried a new standard interface but cinema4d crash on kernel change, always. Now i'm back on v1.9.0

We tried but QA and I cannot reproduce this crash. Could you provide more information on your settings, scene, c4d version and steps to reproduce the crash?

One more thing I noticed when rendering an existing scene from 1.9.0 in 1.9.1: Some node heavy materials change their look a bit. I think it might be connected to usage of the Gradient Node and you do list this node under the "improved color conversion" section. Could this be possible, even for ...

This was an oversight. I'll see if we can fix this.


Aah, perfect, thank you! : )

One more thing I noticed when rendering an existing scene from 1.9.0 in 1.9.1: Some node heavy materials change their look a bit. I think it might be connected to usage of the Gradient Node and you do list this ...

Tim0042 wrote: Wed May 20, 2026 2:54 pm Only downside I've noticed so far is that the LV doesn't automatically update when I'm changing something in one of the linked materials, it only reacts to changes in the master mat. Is this simply a limitation? : )

This was an oversight. I'll see if we can fix this.

@ChrisHekman: Thank you for shedding more light on this!

So in a clean, default C4D scene - what settings should users typically change so that it works with the current iteration of the plugin?

From what I understand, we would usually want to stick with the new C4D default (ACEScg) render ...