Yes, but not cylinders.

It would be great to have Modo fur working in Octane.

I tried the emission but I did not like the results, removed shadows and it looked flat and unrealistic. Instead, I tried overdriving the albedo colour by unclamping the layer shader it is plugged into and increasing the exposure value on a colour correct node.

This would be nice to have.

Definitely using vertex displacement. I can send you the scene privately if you are curious enough. But I have a working option so only for your curiosity

Ah right, I should clarify that displacement is working without use cage enabled when I am using the image map rather than vertex map. If I use the vertex weight map without enabling cage then yes there is some polygon edge tearing.

Ah OK. Bummer. What if you use a bake node between? Nope that seems not to work either. Every job I am trying Octane on I build first in Modo shader tree, fast, flexible and easy. Then rebuild in Octane for the materials that need it. octane might be a great engine but it could use a lot of ...

I have a vertex weight map to isolate two mesh parts to apply a different image-driven vertex displacement to each part using only one UV. In Modo native, I simply assigned a part tag to each and dropped the texture maps into a group for each that adds to the same material group applied to each. But ...

Would love to see this in octane.

Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to this, been a bit swamped. I've attached a simple scene that shows my issue and a few screen grabs. In this example an area light for the sphere only is set to ID 8. The toroid then has ID 8 deflected, so the light does not affect it. There's a second area ...