I doubt the idea of a "special" version of Blender would appeal to many people, especially if there's a purchase price. Despite the fact that you *can* charge money for Blender, enhanced with additional features or not, it wouldn't be a popular move with the Blender community.

Personally, I'd much ...

I tend to try and adopt the options in my workflow that take the least number of steps and are the easiest and fastest to use. As a licensed customer of Octane, I'd like to be able to keep using it into the future. However, if there is no easy and reliable way use Octane with Blender, I imagine I'll ...

I'd already asked about animated textures (w-a-y up-topic) but didn't get an answer.



For an animation, is it okay to use animated image textures (i.e. flames, etc.)?

Of course, that's assuming Octane can use animated image textures and, if so, I'm capable of figuring out how to use them. I've ...

For an animation, is it okay to use animated image textures (i.e. flames, etc.)?

Of course, that's assuming Octane can use animated image textures and, if so, I'm capable of figuring out how to use them. I've never tried an animation with Octane, so this will be a huge learning curve.

So before I ...

Last night I ran into issues when attempting to export a scene from Blender 2.49b. The camera name had been changed from the default "Camera" and I was getting "Camera Invalid" messages from the Octane export script.

I tried using the button on the script interface to fill in the name when the ...