One thing I came across that I wanted to share with you.

I am working on an MBP and a Windows RTX5090 Workstation that acts most of the as a rendering node.

The MBP typically is connected via Wifi and that works reasonably well. I tried to work over Ethernet now because I have a 10GBE Thunderbold ...

Thank you Lino

Just for my curiosity don´t you run any automated tests in development such bugs are rather easy to detect.

There is a bug in Blender Octane 30.2 OSX when starting the material converter this error message pops up.


Python: RuntimeError: could not create instance of OCTANE_OT_convert_to_octane_material to call callback function 'invoke'


29.20 this bug is not existing

Thank you

No I have not any issues but want to be careful with my lifetime because driver problem drove me crazy in the past.

What ist the recommended driver version for a RTX5090 that works well with Octane?

Nvidia Drivers are the most likely cause. Up to now I am still using 522 and then everything is Rock Solid.

I dug a bit in the code and it really looks like the lenses are hardcoded into the binary and no parameters are accessible anywhere.

I was hoping that the final implementation would end up like the lens sim plugin https://superhivemarket.com/products/lens-sim

where you can replicate the lense ...

Does that mean the Realistic Lense is "only" the Universal camera with predefines presets ?

Is it possible to build custom Realistic Lens presets ?

I did some tests with different .blend projects the other days to compare render speeds on 2024 and 2025 and do not see any speed improvements at all.

Am I missing something ?