Hi team,

I have an internal benchmarking scene for our computers and I cannot believe my eyes.
M4 Max with Octane 2024.1: 39 sec.
M4 Max with Octane 2025.1 Beta: 24 sec.

How did you do that?!
Incredible work!

Dear team,

I'm running both the regular Octane version and the new add-on version of the plug-in, because I need the vanilla version of blender (the custom build refuses to install several other add-ons)

However ... the Octane add-on version seems to be very laggy compared to the regular version ...

Thanks for the hint - 29.13 works like a peach!

But the the latest build 29.15 does definitely not work here (Mac OS 15.1 Host, Win 11 Node)

Sadly, it doesn't work.

All recent versions installed.
Octane standalone works perfectly with the node, also Modo does, but Blender not

Hi Paul,

just got a mail from Foundry.
Modo will be discontinued after the release of 17.1

Bummer.

Hi Paul,

thanks a lot for sharing the new 2024.1 Plug-in ... at least for Windows users.

I know that it is not your decision to distribute the Mac Plug-in via Foundry, but this is awful.
Modo 17.0.8 still ships with the buggy V199 of the Plug-in although V200 is out for months now.
To get V200 to ...

Hi Paul,

me again. So ... Foundry has released Modo 17.0v6 and it still ships with the old plugin 199. So I have to switch to Windows to export proper ORBX files with color vertex maps.

Not happy with that.

Best,
David

Hi Paul,

thanks for the new version of the Plug-in.

But Foundry hasn't updated the modo 17 build, yet. So how do we Mac users get the most recent version now? Will we always have to wait for Foundry?
Could you provide a regular download link?

Thanks!
Cheers,
David

Thanks for the scene David. The error is due to an issue with the export to ORBX process that is only present in the 2023.1.2.199 version of the plugin, and is fixed in the next release (2023.1.3.200). The next release of the Octane plugin will hopefully be shipped in the next build of Modo (17.0v7 ...

Hi Paul,

sure - this is a very simple Modo scene exported to ORBX: Thanks!

Cheers,
David