I appreciate your continued efforts in Blender plugin.
Although cycle is a great improvement for Blender. It doubt that an "one-manned" Blender add-on can ever surpass the quality of a fully-dedicated dev team like yours.

I don't know if this news mean that the Blender's compositor will soon have full access to Octane.
If it does, animating a scene--like this one: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=899170--will be a reality.

Thank you for the update, Radiance. And I love the new look of your cite.

Thanks, I checked my email after work and found your mail arrived. It looks like I've sent the email after your business hours. I just forgot I live in a different time zone from yours . I love your software and look forward to your updates.

How long do I have to wait once I've sent my forum name and Machine ID to get my Activation Key?
I've sent my Machine ID and received an email in about an hour later that asked me for my forum name, to which I replied with my forum name about an hour and a half ago and I haven't received any reply ...

Finally the render.... I wish I had more time to test with different HDR images and angles.

Thanks, Cire and Xenomorph.

Finally, rendering....
What do you guys think the black gray line on the upper eyelid coming from?

I've manage to take time out to model and texture the eyelids for the eye with Blender 2.49a while I'm taking a break at my parent's home. I couldn't test it with Octane though, since I'm away from my computer. My parent's computer does not have a cuda-enabled VGA. I'll test it tommorow when I get ...

Wow! That's a brilliant idea.