Blender Exporter does not launch Octane

[Blenderik]

Hi Guys

When I use the Blender to octane exporter (v1.11) in Blender 2.59, 2.60, 2.60.6 Octane does not launch. There is no error message in the console, Blender creates the ocs file and I can manually open it, but Octane doesn't start. I want to export an animation, so I can't possibly start it manually everytime. I tried installing Octane in 3 different directories, and always pointed to them, nothing.
I tried exporting only selected objects, checked and unchecked create OCS and Write Mat. into OCS, no luck.
Thanks for any help

[steveps3]

If you are using the F12 shortcut then you don't seem to be able to use this until the second time you render. That is what I find anyway. So the first time you render after running Blender, use the render image button.

Hopefully this will work.

[Blenderik]

I was just about to write this solution myself,
Thanks
Clicking works.

[stiwi]

Hi,

my main software is rhino, but I use Blender from time to time for special tasks. I installed the exporter and it appears as an additional renderer. I created the octane project settings and the octane system settings. But each time I try to render with octane I get a message: Something wrong happened, check the console log. But there is no error in the console log.

Any idea?

Thanks.

[steveps3]

If you go to the blender thread and look for the unofficial blender exporter posts, maybe something in there will strike gold. The exporter really does work. You probably have a setting slightly wrong. I assume you have filled in the three fields on the render tab correctly.

[stiwi]

Well, I went through the thread but nothing helped me.
I installed Blender 2.60 in the meantime but same result.
Finally I found this in the log:

Does that give you a clue?

Thanks

[matej]

You probably have a non-ascii character in some of your paths or filename. Neither Blender nor Octane take kindly to strange characters around here...