bepeg4d, you're the best in the biz. This worked exactly as I was hoping it would. Thanks a ton!

Yo,

I've consulted the manual, watched as many relevant tutorials as I can find, but no luck in cementing my understanding of what I'm trying to do.

Quite literally this, but for/in Octane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrISqFY3bQ&t=408s

I use both RS and Octane fairly regularly, but have done ...

Wanted to explore the composite material and in referencing aoktar's Octane manual, I've hit something of a snag insomuch as that the created Octane Composite node does not have an 'Amount 2', 'Amount 3' slot in which to pipe in the created float nodes.
Present, however, are slots named 'Material 1 ...

In the same boat as many of you; V4 licenses, upgrade path and cost options are confusing. In no way thrilled about the upgrade paths and lack of clarity. I've been looking for a reason to migrate to Redshift full time as I already have licenses for my workstations, in light (yet again) of this ...

Certainly.

GSG has created, at this moment in time, two material packs for Octane (and other renderers). In order to use these, their directory location must be linked into the LocalDB filed within Octane Settings > Other > LocalDB.

When I load certain materials (not every material is affected ...

No luck, aoktar.

Thanks aoktar! I'll give it a shot and report back.

I'm using Cinema 4D R20 .059, Octane version 4.04 RC4 R2.

I need to use a version earlier than 4.05 due to conflicts with a GSG material pack.

What sort of workarounds are available for this?

~N

Thank you so much for sharing your solution. I encountered this today and was incredibly bummed to run into this strange problem/bug. Cheers to you, man! Should our paths ever cross I'll gladly buy you a pint.

I've resolved the issue I was having!!!!! So happy