I keep being reminded of this every time I have a job that needs a label putting on a product.

The way it's done now is so clunky, it makes it such a chore, especially with embossed logos. There just needs to be a specific node to allow full control of displacements in a certain orientation. The ...

Is there going to be a black Friday bundle this year?

As someone who came from a photography background, knowing none of the history of how these types of software are produced, I realise I was spoiled as a photographer with all of my software just getting consistently better over time.

The more I use Octane, the more I feel gets broken with every ...

Hi Bepe,

Hey dude, I thought I'd come back and update this, I didn't realise you'd replied. It wasn't working for a few days, and I ended up rebooting about ten times, and eventually, it started saying 1.6.1. It has jumped back to 1.5.1 a few times, which I can't explain, but as of now it's ...

That's the one I installed, but it doesn't seem to work. It successfully installs, but when I load up C4D, it still shows build 1.5.1

Displacements are by far Octanes most obvious weakness. The implementation of them is terrible, and lag behind even ancient renderers like Modos. Like already stated above, vertex displacements just aren't an option for 99% of people interested in speed and efficiency.

I remember the most I ...

Sorry, I didn't see you've responded! I tried to install it, but it didn't work, do I have to update 4D? I'm currently on 2025.2.0 and it's nice and stable, so would prefer to stay on this if I can.

Yep, it's something to do with Standard Surface materials. I already know the material channel is completely broken in this build for Standard Surfaces, but it seems the noise channel is, too?

I just started an old scene, and every the material type performs fine, but standard surfaces fail when ...

Does anyone else ever have this problem? Half the time solo node works, and the other half, it just creates a black screen. At the moment, I've had two days of nothing but black screens whenever I try to solo a noise node, and creating new scenes and restarting does not fix the problem.

Is there ...

Agree 100%. Personally, I could care less about many of these big speculative features that are announced once a year (and seemingly stay in beta/development forever), and I would much rather have smaller incremental changes that are less sexy, but make Octane a more production focused tool.

One ...