There are not a Python connection, but a connection library for c++ plugins if you are interested.

Since you don't have any changes on scene content, plugin is not calling restart of render. And using previous render buffer. Make a small animation which causes restart of rendering on the frames.

Not sure why you are talking at same direction. I have solved and implemented basics of realtime translation and also mat to mat conversion and it is available since I have left the active development. Are you aware of that?

It's not a controllable behavior from plugin side. Same result happens when you use standard renderer, etc.. if you don't have save file specified.
See output file settings in render queue. It's filled by C4D system, saved file is generated also. Not plugin.

Could you give me a simple scene to illustrate your problem? I suppose it's not specific to some version!

welcome Chris and thank you for putting up with our craziness here!!!

One thing I would like to bump up the list is conversion of red shift materials and red shift textures etc.
The main reason for this is that Maxon is releasing a lot of new assets but none of them have obviously third-party or ...

Apart from C4D's nodes graph, our materials are based on Legacy system even for node graph. Everything are under data of materials and nothing is impossible to do via a script which you can do on C4D system.
What do you wish to do obtain at end?

Good luck on this adventure!

Is there any info from Otoy how the C4D plugin is handled in the future? Ahmet did such a great job... and now it seems it's getting pretty quiete.

Getting a bit worried here as well. =/

Features announced (or already present) in Octane standalone look great. But if development of the C4D ...

It's about this option. It's an optimisation flag to avoid having same mesh double times.