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)

Sadly, it doesn't work.

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

Hi Beppe,

sorry, it is a M4 Max 40-Core … it was a typo.

Thanks!

Did you connect both MacBook Pro to power supply during test?

ciao,
Beppe

Yep, Power supply on both (same results whether 'automatic' or 'high power' in system settings).

Standalone 2024.1
M3 Max (Sonoma 14.1)
M4 Max (Sequoia 15.1)

I can't get near 15s with M3 Max (which you have ...