Thank you guys! My new video card came today so I'll download and use and abuse as directed.

I'm finally a point to try using Octane regularly. I have a license and was curious to know, do I simply download the most recent demo and activate it with my license? Or is there a specific download for registered users?

Sam,

I did have spaces in my material names and hyphens. I've adjusted my material names and I'm not good to go!

Thank you for the help.

Bill

I'm using the most recent build of Rhino5 on Win7, 64bit. I've assigned multiple materials to my model using the default Rhino render. When I import my model into Octane, it only pulls in one (1) material. A diffuse material (assigned to all objects) and it comes in pure black. Not even white.

Am I ...

Thanks Sam! That is good news. I'll switch to the Rhino 5 beta when I know I'll be rendering with Octane.

Is there a way to consolidate objects with the same material? For example, I have 250 plus objects with the same material. When I import the model into Octane, it seems as a material node is created for each object. So I end up with 250 duplicates of the same material.

I'm using Rhino 4. Perhaps ...

I spent a few hours today at the Apple store and went as far as to download Rhino and Octane on a MacBook Pro i7. Rhino installed and ran rather well. Very similar to Rhino 4 for Windows. Octane had install problems and would not run.

In Octanes defense, it is still in beta version. So for the ...

What do you think about running Windows on a Mac book pro? Would octane run better? I guess I just don't want to believe I can't run octane on a Mac book pro.

Thanks Kubo.

With all due respect to Octane, is the work flow of Octane duplicating efforts? I'm just trying to wrap my head around the program. I think it is pretty cool and very easy to make changes on the fly. I'm just trying to understand the logic and/or though process of having to setup ...

I'm considering switching my entire system over to a Mac Book Pro. Even using Rhino OSX. I'm considering Octane as my render program of choice.

Can anyone offer up any suggestions, warnings, advice?

Thanks in advance!
Billy Raygun