Thanks Chris,
Will see how work gets on with trying out Maya first on Linux before I go that way.

Would really like to give Octane a go, so use to using Max/Maxwell Render that it's hard to break the work flow & habits - haaaa haaaa

I want to get away from the Windows environment altogether as stated in previous posts, I've had a play with Blender & don't like it, my works looking at going the Linux way also and are speaking about getting Maya. I've had a read of the latest Maya plugin but that looks like it's only for Windows ...

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I've had another play with Octane this evening & for the love of me I can't find where to do UV Mapping adjustments...does this all need to be done in the modelling software prior to exporting ? If so then what if you just import an obj into the stand-a-lone software, how does the "live ...

Thank you...the light bulb finally came on :lol: :lol:

Apply a default material in Blender then export to Octane VOILA all my layers/items appear in Octane....so use to simply pulling in a model/creating a model in MAX or CD4 without materials then into Maxwell Render.

Now to replicate my Maxwell ...

Matej you're my hero :lol: :lol: :lol:
I've searched high & low on Google on how to set up a simple Blender camera & does it tell you that anywhere !!!!!
Gees a totally different workflow & procedure & YES the model shows up in Octane (angelic music starts playing in the background)

Now to master ...

So having used blender for a total of 4 days that means ???
So use to using Max & CD4 adding a camera is a piece of p..s

Narcissic Camera Screen Dump...

I can render the camera view with the normal blender render command with no errors, as soon as I do Octance render error message.

Thanks for the replies...

Spent some time on it this afternoon & even managed to convince the wife to print off the manual last yesterday.

Here's what I've found today...first of all I need to stipulate I have decided to ditch windows & maxwell, go the linux route but due to problems I've been ...

Right I took Blender out of the equation...

Steps
1. Export obj from Max 2011 all objects named accordingly (Windows)
2. Import obj into Octane direct (Linux) - still have to zoom out about 10 mouse wheel scrolls using "shift" before I find it
3. Octane doesn't retain layer names
4. Model is ...

Hi Yah,

I'm so trying hard to get this thing to work for me but not finding it the easiest of software to use, and I'm quite good with learning this kind of thing.

Export .max model to obj transfer to Linux box where blender & octane are. Pull obj into Blender to check it hit 3d view & model is ...