will this ever happen? Vray, Arnold, Corona and of course Redshift have supported the native C4D node editor for some time. Is this an engineering issue or a "get off my lawn we only like the old style better.." thing and it will never catch up to the current standard? There are clear advantages to ...

"Neural Rendering Modules and Nodes (experimental): Launch ML and Neural Filters locally or through the Render Network with integrated local and remote neural rendering within the Octane Node Graph." Where are those? I don't see them in 2026.1 Alpha 1.

https://i.imgur.com/Shvy3wz.png

"In tandem with today’s initial release candidate of Octane 2025.1, OTOY® is letting users test drive dozens of new features shipping in next year’s major Octane update: Meshlets, Neural Radiance Caching, path traced gaussian splatting, procedural real time texture displacement, trace sets, built-in ...

Why is otoy always so vague about when the Black Friday deal ends? You are cutting out potential customers who are juggling financial commitments while you try to be cheeky about when the sale ends. It’s not a good look.

one of the many reasons why I didn't get the BF deal this year and let my license lapse after owning for about 3-4 years. Blender plugin seems underdeveloped and since I'm shifting away from C4D, I don't need it there. I checked in here to see if there was encouraging news on Octane for Blender.

check the subscription ordering page. GSG is out as is Kitbash.

Still no update on this ?
Had to reinstall Embergen at one point and now I can't access any of my files because they were created in a version too recent ><
With only a few weeks of the Black Friday deal left to run and Embergen staff publically stating they don't plan to renew the Otoy BF deal ...

KB3D, Embergen and probably GSG too. Not sure how much of a deal the rest of the stuff is, especially when the "Otoy" editions of external software gets updated less often.

GSG responded on their Discord about the same question and said to contact Otoy since its their deal. I'm guessing Otoy subsidizes all companies involved until they can't keep the deal because of rising costs. It was a good 2 year run at least

First with KB3D doing their junky Crate sub and now GSG is raising their yearly sub by quite a bit. Are they the next to back out of the Octane sub deal?

https://greyscalegorilla.com/pricing-up ... ng-to-plus