Sorry, at the moment i can´t find the time to work on the plugin.
But i can release an actual state of the last work.

Yes,
im here. will release a candidate the next time.

face

Working on the image node. It will be possible to use all image formats, which Softimage can use as image.
It will also possible to uses all image clip effects like crop, flip, rescale, color correct and so on...

face

Some other improvements...

Added roughness parameter to the diffuse material.
Changed falloff shader to match the standalone one.
Fixed the portal material wich sets the wrong attribute so the material had no effect.
The distributed raytracing parameter of the info channel kernel is changed to the ...

W-Coordinates for strands.

For now it´s quick enough

Damn, now i have an additional project which needs some attention...

Updated Emission shaders with the options to en/disable double sided emission.
Also visibility options are added. These are:
On diffuse, on specular, transparent emission and cast shadows.

Baking shader wich will bake the input texture to an internal image.
This can be used to drive the displacement shader, which hasn´t the capability to use Octane procedural shaders.
With the baking shader, it is now possible.

Ambient occlusion environment shader.
This shader will set a texture which is used in the direct light ambient occlusion mode.