Ah, but the Material Link node is amazing - looks extremely useful, thx! Just this morning I was looking for a way to blend between two existing comp materials without having to resort to the old mix material or copying a large amount of nodes.

Only downside I've noticed so far is that the LV doesn ...

One small bug I just came across: The depth dropdown in the Render AOV Manager starts off as 16 Bit in a clean new scene, but once you change it to 32, it shows as blank and can't be changed to either 16 or 32, it stays empty.

That guide is outdates. The 1.9.1 build should now always copy over color data correctly to octane, regardless of the colorspace that C4D is using. So you can just leave C4D OCIO settings the default, octane should copy over the colors correctly then.
When it comes to the view colorspace you can ...

@ChrisHekman: Thank you for shedding more light on this!

So in a clean, default C4D scene - what settings should users typically change so that it works with the current iteration of the plugin?

From what I understand, we would usually want to stick with the new C4D default (ACEScg) render space ...

While this seems to have helped the OP, I don't understand what settings I need. Will there be a guide or post on what best settings to use?
It seems like before ACES 2065-1 was the working space for Octane, but now it's Linear SRGB? I'm just reflecting on what the OTOY Aces guide said for earlier ...

@Tim0042
Have you tried to rebuild the custom layouts from scratch?

ciao,
Beppe

Ah, good point - some are indeed still from 2026.0. I've now done a test where I only jump back and forth between the standard layout and a new custom one, in a clean new scene with just a cube. After switching ...

Do you mean that it crashes to desktop (C4D application quits) or that Octane stops rendering?
Could you share a scene where it happens with? And steps to reproduce - even if it is inconsistent?


Sorry, I meant the latter, yep - C4D crashes to desktop. It does still show the standard ...

I'm experiencing some crashes with this build and current C4D (2026.1.0), across different project files that don't have much going on (only modelling work, so some meshes, SubDivs, a remesh object and that's it). So I don't believe that they are scene specific.

The crashes tend to occur, however ...

When scaling a project, would it be possible to have the Bump Height in materials be scaled automatically as well? For example, if I CTRL+D scale the project from 1 to 10, could we multiply the Bump Height in all Materials by 10? This might prevent them from changing their appearance in that regard ...

Thank you for the new version! (Also thumbs up for the continued use of Trello!)

One question regarding the update - the material compatibility mode includes "2025.4" as an option, so the Octane version we just jumped to. What is this used for?

I understand switching to legacy behavior when ...