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• Implemented on-the-fly baking of non-Octane textures. Now you can connect non-Octane textures to "bakingInput" attribute of Octane Image Textures. Keep in mind that this is extremely expensive back-to-CPU-rendering operation, especially with high resolution baking (which is performed on a CPU by the injected node plus Octane's translation processing). So your scene will spend more time to translate each frame, especially when there are many of such textures in a scene. Use it only if you desperately need some Maya textures (e.g. for procedural displacement)... I will optimize a speed a little bit in next releases, but it will not be a dramatical improvement 'cause most of this is spent by Maya's CPU rendering code, I will just force a lower baking resolution for Material Preview, swatches etc (which are working in parallel to your interactive rendering).
  Consider this a test-feature so far, as I can change some things in it. Don't use it for production scenes.
• Improved material converter "selected only" mode.
• Minor fixes and improvements...

akvahouse wrote:For example, how to bake textures in a plugin is not entirely clear.