with Blender 5.1, adding Octane lights from:
Add → Light → [Octane Light]
always creates a light with a Cycles light shader instead of the correct Octane shader.
Waiting for a proper fix (Blender Foundation may be involved in this), I created a small addon that bypasses the issue by appending fully configured Octane lights from a .blend library instead of creating them procedurally.
This ensures:
- correct Octane shader assignment
- intact node trees
- consistent behavior
Important
For now, please use:
Add → Light → Octane Light Library
instead of the standard Octane light entries.
How it works
The addon includes a .blend file with pre-configured lights.
When adding a light from:
Add → Light → Octane Light Library
it:
- loads the light from the Lights datablock
- creates it in the scene
- places it at the 3D cursor
- sets it as active
Installation
Install the attached .zip from Preferences → Add-ons
Enable the addon
Notes
- Temporary workaround
- Non-invasive (does not override existing operators)
- Not needed once the issue is fixed upstream