I would love a Blender plugin as well.
It might be an early question but maybe someone can answer it as good as today possible:

When can we expect the plugin to be working?
How much will it cost? Just roughly: 10$, 100$ or 1000$ ?

Of course I can't tell you why there are much less entries than in the competition before. Nevertheless I'm one of the people that spent a lot of time with the previous competition. And I had a lot of fun doing it.
My reason why I didn't participate this competition was purely and only the theme. I ...

+1 from me, even so i use linux what does what i want to do. Instead of windows vista what says sometimes your computer will be restarted in 15 min. if you don't click here.
That way one would have a backup in case octane crashes and one could also make an animation of the rendering process.

yeah, thanks ycarry i figured it out. At first I just got the mesh in the node editor with only one connection. It seemed like octane did not import the information from the mtl file. Second time I loaded it everything was there.

Thanks ycarry, good post from roeland. I should have read it before I opened this thread.
He attached an obj and an mtl file. Can someone tell me how I can open this in octane? I mean I can import the obj file but how can I use the mtl file with it?

update: got it, seems that something went wrong ...

Yeah the main problem at the moment is for those scenes you need very small light sources, best would be laser light :)
But with the actual render engine (searching the tiny lightsource from the camera) it takes a lot of samples to get even lit objects. Its a bit better with pmc, so I made this ...

Now it looks like expected!

@steveps3: the model is quite simple but maybe the lamp is a bit tricky. Here you go.

ok, that's embarrassing. The normals where pointing inside. Stupid me!
Thanks cornel for the quick help!

It says "The extension ocs is not allowed."
Hm, I thought it is possible to attach an octane file to a post. Maybe someone knows how this can be done?

I played around with dispersion and wanted to make a render of a colourful refractive software logo when I stepped on a problem.
It seems like that light rays are refracted in the wrong direction. At first I believed I must have done something wrong. But several tests seemed to approve that octane ...