A few questions

[Ibycus]

Just a few simple questions I was wondering about but couldn't find answered anywhere else.

1. Is there a way to use more than 8 render layer masks. Seems you can go higher than 8 with the octane tag but in the render settings there are only 8 ID's to check.

2. Is there a way to change how octane defaults on a few things during start up? It would be really nice if octane defaulted to linear and 2.2 in settings, also it would be great if an octane material, when created, defaulted with an image texture already loaded into all the places that you have to put one, like diffuse, spec, etc. Feel like I'm always loading the image tex and i wish it was just there already.

[aoktar]

Yes theorically that's possible. Need to revise the plugin and interface for that. But this masks are extracted by additional render sessions after beauty+render passes. Just a note.
There is no option in plugin for changing the defaults. What about to create some materials, etc.. and copy to content browser? You can get them.

[ChrisMills]

The "octane defaulted to linear and 2.2 in settings" can be done by choosing those settings then saving the C4D file as NEW.C4D in the same folder as the Cinema4D application.