Before i upgrade m licenses to version 2 i want to test v1.55. I have standalone licenses for v1.55 but cannot activate the v1.55 plugin for studio max. Do i have to pay to do this?

Can i use the v1.55 plugin for max for free if i have a standalone license? If so how do i activate it?

If i have to ...

Hi,
I have posted a topic in the release candidate forum about the problems i have been experiencing with some scenes i have produced.
Has anyone noticed a difference between the older 2.44 release and the latest 2.46b release.
I have had a problem getting 3 seperate scenes to render at the large ...

Thanks for the suggestions but i have an update.
I realised since i posted that the SL bathroom scene was put together in 2.44 release while the others were put together using the later 2.46b release.
I have since gone back to the 2.44 release for the SC2 bathroom and rebuilt the scene and can ...

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this..
I have 3 bathrooms as an example please see attachments. All of them use the same sorts of materials and are lit by texture environments. All of them were modelled in the same way and all were exported from 3DS Max the same way.
Bathroom SC2 will only ...

Hi,
I've been using Octane now for many months commercially and I have noticed that over the course of producing scores of interiors that some seem to converge a lot easier and faster than others. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it - no two interiors are the same obviously but all have ...

OMG you're right.. That's saved my a*se!
Thanks.

Forgot to mention i am using the 3.0 build for multi gpu use...
Sorry.

Hi,
i am using the version 1.0 beta 2.46b with the Nvidia driver 270.61 which is CUDA version 4.0 (I only recently updated the nvidia driver and i was getting the same problem with CUDA 3.2)
i have attached a screen grab of the problem.

1. is this an Octane problem or a problem with my settings?
2 ...

Hi,
I have just recently installed a GTX590 for faster rendering with Octane and have come up against a problem straight away. I am using the correct version of Octane and the correct drivers so now need a bit of help of sorting it out.
When i render a scene i get the rendered image split in two and ...