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[brutesque]

I get this pretty much twice an hour.

[bepeg4d]

@brutesque:
I'm following you via PM, the plugin was not installed correctly.

ciao,
Beppe

[brutesque]

@brutesque:
I'm following you via PM, the plugin was not installed correctly.

ciao,
Beppe

We'll see. I'll follow your instructions, but i'm not at all convinced i've been installing octane wrongly for all the years i've used it.

[brutesque]

Don't go for mac. The mac version is severely lacking. Network rendering is not working. They disabled liveDB for some reason (kept an unusable button in the interface tho). I need the liveviewer and also send my render to a windows render machine. Octane on mac crashing constantly. Not an hour goes by with crashes. This has been the trend since my classic mac pro using cuda and is still happening on my M1 Max. It is utterly unusable, as i'm trying to hit my deadline while having C4D crash every 15 to 20 minutes.
If you are about to invest in new machines, save yourself the pain trying to move to mac.

And btw. Octane doesn't render consistently between MacOS and Windows.

Image in nuke shows result of my windows based teamrender machine. Image on the right is live viewer on macos.

(edit: i need to retract this, because this was human error)

[brutesque]

@brutesque:
I'm following you via PM, the plugin was not installed correctly.

ciao,
Beppe

It wasn't installed incorrectly. I've followed instructions to move the plugins to a different directory and it had no effect on stability at all.

[james_conkle]

What’s the best version of macOS to be on now? And where should the plug-in be placed for best reliability? Im adding a MBP into my workflow and would like a consistent experience between PC & Mac using the C4D plugin.

[gowntn1]

hello,when I use emission material,there will be noise in the shadow layer of AOV

[bepeg4d]

What’s the best version of macOS to be on now? And where should the plug-in be placed for best reliability? Im adding a MBP into my workflow and would like a consistent experience between PC & Mac using the C4D plugin.

Hi James,

it depends from the GPU in the MBP.

if M1/M2, you need macOS 13.3.1.
If AMD GPU, you need mcOS 12.6

The installation path for Mac is:

- HD\Applications\Maxon Cinema 4D R2X\plugins\c4doctane (You have to create the plugins folder in lower case!)

ciao,
Beppe

[james_conkle]

Thanks Beppe, just snagged a M2 so I’ll make sure it’ll on that OS as I set it up this weekend. Thanks for the install tips- was curious about where it should go after the last few messages in this thread.

[james_conkle]

Just testing things out now and the responsiveness is very nice however I have to ask anyone else with a M1/2 MBP - when rendering does your laptop get super hot and loud? My wife in the same room complained of the noise and I couldn't blame her...

I know it's a very demanding task for any computer to do, but all I heard leading up to my purchase was that these computers stay cool and quiet under heavy workloads.

For reference I have an M2 Max 14in and I've been using the latest software versions: C4D 2023.2.1 & Octane 2022.1.1(r4) and macOS 13.3.1