2.24 works in R17 for the most part, but it crashes fairly often. Sent a bug report to Maxon and they confirmed the crash was caused by Octane. I'm attaching the Cinema-generated bug report.

Thanks -- that did the trick.

Anyone?

I had to replace the motherboard in my computer and now when I run Cinema I get an error message saying that Octane is running on another computer. I can't deactivate it on the "old" computer because the motherboard is kaput. How can I get Octane up and running again? Thanks!

Okay, great. Thanks!

Wow, just saw the Octane 3.0 announcement. Any timeline for a Cinema plugin?

I've tried diffuse material, glossy, and mix. Enable displacement in material's basic tab. Try to load anything in the displacement channel and nothing appears in the link box. If I try to load a bitmap directly Cinema asks me if I want to copy the file to the scene location, but the file still ...

I got a crash trying to load a scene that was saved with assets, where the scene had some downloaded materials and one offline material. I understand that the offline material wouldn't load (?), but there should be a warning or something instead of a crash. Bug report attached.

I'm sorry for the false alarm. Stupidly, the glass object I was using to test this had the normals reversed. That's not a problem for Cinema's native glass shaders (which is why I didn't notice earlier), but it causes major problems with renderers like VRay and Octane.

Brand new to Octane and the C4D plugin, but it looks to me like the specular material's "index" channel is meant to set the material's refractive index. As such one would expect a value of around 1.5 to be correct for glass, but it renders completely wrong. The correct setting for material glass ...