I have been working with this software for weeks now, and every time I'm working with textures in Poser 2012, I find that they don't transfer over from Poser properly. The textures are often not sized according to the settings in Poser. It appears if the map is not scaled to the correct default size, the map shows up over sized. Using maps that need to be scaled to fit the figure result in errors in the transfer. I then must resize them in Octane, which is a real pain. Many of the materials do not transfer to Octane correctly. Basic colors of materials do not always work. Parts often do not have the correct color set in Poser materials. If the textures and materials do not transfer correctly to the plug in.. then the plug in is worthless.
If the maps colors have been changed in Poser, then the color of the map does not change in Octane. Why? All Poser settings should affect the way the textures appear in the render. That's a given, if this plug in is ever going to succeed.
Does this mean that only maps made for the model can be used for that model? Example - I have a Michael 4 creature morph that I added a skin texture map to in the materials room, it must be sized down to fit onto the figure. That will not transfer to Octane with the settings from Poser. Thus, I have to retexture the figure in the Octane plug in, in order to get the proper results. Trying this caused the software to crash... thus loosing the work. It appears that this software has many issues that need to be resolved before it's ready for professional applications. It's far too troublesome with crashes and rendering issues to be of much use to me.
I'm not a satisfied customer... to say the least.
I use Keyshot 3.0 a lot, and this application could learn a lot from that software. It's easier to texture objects, it does it in realtime, the renderings are clean and bright with a standard HDR lighting background so that you can see what you get. Lighting a scene is easier. This Octane plug in falls far short of the quality I get with Keyshot. If I could export the textures from Keyshot into Poser, that would solve many issues, but it does not allow exporting. Thus I must texture in Poser using what is available for Poser. One reason I got the Poser Plug in was to allow me to use Poser content in my film. However, it's not working as well as I had hoped.
With all the trouble I'm having with it... it's made me think I wasted my investment.