I found a good workaround for this by double nesting the desired object, you can still use it as a render instance, have it hidden, and you don't have to change any settings.

Screenshot attached below.

I noticed the most recent version of Octane completely broke all previous versions of displacement on my old scenes too. Maybe switching into a different compatibility mode would fix it?

Searching across the forum I came across this topic below on the subject which is a few years old at this point.

https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=59386&p=304239&hilit=alpha+fog#p304239

It seems that this glitch still persists in Octane 2021.1.5. Is there any plan to fix this ...

Have you tried the 4dm light kit spotlight? That one works pretty well. You could also fake the spotlight volume with a cone mesh and the proper material.

Is there an idiots guide on how to use this? If I add it to R25's plugins folder, nothing shows up under plugins or in the commander. The script editor remains blank.

I should have included that the file goes in your C4D/library/scripts/ folder, then it will appear under your Scripts menu when ...

Check this out.

In your emission material, I set the light pass ID of that Blackbody Emission node to "2". Then, I put an octane object tag on a null containing other objects you don't want the emissive material to affect, and used the light pass mark to disable all lights with the ID "2" from ...

I experimented with the scene for a bit but was experiencing the same problem on 2x 3090s. I think the best solution might be to try standard render + After Effects to get the look you're going for.

If someone could figure out a trick for this though, that would be awesome.

That sounds very helpful! Can you post here?
That would be awesome! Can you post it here so everyone can use it? :)

Got you. I uploaded it here to Gumroad as a free download.
https://bluntaction.gumroad.com/l/fiximagetextures

Let me know if it works for you!

Btw zomtech, I'm a huge fan of ...

I wrote a script to fix this issue you're talking about, if you'd like i can share it with you.

It will go through every material in your project, every node, and search for image textures. Then, it will copy those files to a projects local folder, and fix the reference in every image texture ...

Awesome, been looking forward to reading up on all of the new nodes.