linograndiotoy wrote: Wed May 27, 2026 4:03 pm The question is: does it work in 5.1/Cycles?

No, it does not

The developer of HDRLS told me that they currently do not support Blender 5.1 - just up to Blender 5.0, because there is an issue with Blender 5.1 on Mac OS, which hasn't been resolved yet.

Thanks a lot for your reply!

It is just the latest release of HDRLS + Blender Plugin. It worked fine with Blender 4.5 LTS and Octane 2025 and does not work with Blender 5.0 and Octane 2026 anymore.

I guess that it is a simple issue, because the link between HDRLS and Blender is just a temporary ...

Hi team,

when using HDR Light Studio with any of the 2026.x plugins the temp HDRI does not refresh automatically anymore.
Platform: Mac OS X 26.5 on M4 Max

When using Cycles it works just fine and also the recent Blender/Octane Plug-in versions were OK.

Could you please fix this?

Best,
David

Hey David, when you say “the same procedure every year”, what do you mean exactly? Just waiting for OTOY to catch up after the macOS release, or do you usually follow some specific workaround in the meantime?


I mean the annual tradition of a new major OS release that seems to be completely ...

... the same procedure every year.

Hi team,

today Mac OS 26 will be officially released.

Is the latest Octane Render tested and ready on Mac OS 26 (on Apple Silicon)?

Thanks in advance!
David

Hi,

I usually achieve this with a specular material.
Refractive index set to 1.0, reflection color set to black, then just adjust the roughness and that should be it.

Best,
David

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)