Hi Chris,

I'll try some other scenes to see of it's specific to one or more...if I find something, I'll send you the offending scene early next week.

Cheers
-Toby

Lino,

Understood...i'll stick with 4.5.5 and 30.11 for now.

Cheers,
Toby

Thanks Lino,

looking forward to seeing what you can do.

Cheers,
Toby

Lino,

Awesome pal, thanks very much for the prompt reply....works perfectly!

Cheers
-Toby

Lino,

Thanks for the reply and clarification of the issue...the texture gamma was in fact the cause of my issue!
Can you please link me to your script...some of my scenes have 100's of textures that i'll need to convert.

Cheers
-Toby

Lino,
I've just updated from Blender 4.5.5 to 5.2 with Octane 31.10

PLEASE, pretty please, with sugar on top, fix this!

The 'Show Octane Viewport' button is used exclusively here, to be able to QUICKLY view our AOV's and then save out Layered EXR's, with cryptomattes, WITHOUT having to do things ...

Lino,

Can you please explain what has changed and how we can maybe avoid surprises when opening older scenes in the latest Blender 5.2 / Octane 31.10?

All of the scenes that I've opened so far (Blender 4.5.5/Octane30.9) are looking very different in terms of lighting and texture gamma...much ...

Sorry, just read the post in the Bug Reports section and thought my post fit better there:

viewtopic.php?p=444169#p444169

In my experience, If you're saving your image from the Blender Output Dialog, you'll get this problem. Layered EXR's (With Cryptomattes) will never be interpreted correctly in Photoshop using the EXR-io Plugin.

I've found, if you open the "Show Octane Viewport" under the "Octane Kernel" Tab and ...

Hey Paul,

Yeah I understand it's better to use the "correct" install method...but I don't seem to have a choice. Just updated to your latest release you posted on the PF Discord. (you gonna update this forum to the latest release?)
Followed your instructions from Discord, still the same result ...