I think I may have it sorted. I followed the instructions here: http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=40582

The important thing is to click the upgrade button from the sites main page, and not the buy now button.

Hi,
I have upgraded my Octane standalone licence to v2, and I had read that it came with an automatic upgrade for the Maya Octane licence as well. However, when I try to use a v2 maya plugin I get an error saying that my licence is not valid. Is there something I need to do to get the included ...

I got my live DB working in maya. Thanks for your help TBFX!

It looks like my octane live account name and password hadn't been saved in the render setting preferences between reboots so it was putting me in offline mode. Sometimes it helps to look at the script editor!

I am having the same ...

This issue seems fixed with 1.18

Thanks.

I have upgraded to 1.17 and I still have the same issue.

Is there any way I can activate a debug log file or equivalent to help look into this?

Hi,
I have been having issues with the live refresh times in the maya plugin since version 1.14. Basically, when I render from within Maya I get an initial update with maybe 2/10000 samples and then I do not get another update until all of the desired samples has been rendered (10000/10000).

To ...

I have a strange issue since upgrading from OctaneRender for Maya v1.13 beta to this version. In the previous versions, when I render an image, I get frequent updates in the render view showing me the progress of the render. In 1.16b, I get a single update at the beginning of the render, and then ...

JimStar, previously you gave a example of how to set the values of a octane pin node:
//Set color pin value (Octane RGBspectrum Texture):
octane -tcp <pin name> <R-value> <G-value> <B-value>;

//Set float pin value (Octane Float Texture):
octane -tfp <pin name> <value>;

Could you also give an ...

Can anyone tell me the way to set an Octane material node value (for example Specular) with MEL? I tried using setAttr but it gave me errors about the type.

Thanks.

Notes regarding features/functionality
OctaneRender™ for Maya® implements almost full functionality of OctaneRender™ standalone inside Maya®. Materials from the Live DB are currently not available.


"Materials from the Live DB are currently not available." - Should this still be in the notes?