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While I realize for as much as you've spent, you are justifiably upset, a little looking around would likely have answered some questions for you.

For example, since all the plug in does is nearly copy the version 1.2 standalone within the Daz Studio environment, it means that the manual for the standalone covers pretty much everything the plugin does as far as how it should work. Reading that manual should have been somewhere on your to do list anyway, since it dictates anything any plugin should be able to do. Minor changes from that to the lplugin would be things that are irrelevant to you until you get the plugin running anyway, and most are intuitive. If I am not becoming more horribly dyslexic, from posts in another thread, you are also using an unsupported card for the plug-in, which is likely your issue as far as it not displaying anything, since Octane (thus the plugin) only uses compatible video cards to do any rendering. Your card is currently incompatible with the plugin version of the api, thus there is nothing to render.

In the mean time, you could always use the standalone to render, since you have a license for that as well, and that documentation is current, including some good starting points for how to export your scenes for use with it. Not sure if anyone else got back to you on your issue, but until t_3 gets the plugin updated (which afaik, he's doing by himself, and given some of what I've learned about doing anything with Daz api, it's a miracle he's gotten as much done as he has), that would be your only solution.

This is all a moot point now. I requested and was granted a full refund. So this is the last you will hear from me here. But I would like to point out a couple of things, in the hope that further confusion could be avoided.

1. The post in this forum said that the 1.2 / 1.3 versions of Octane could not be used with the GTX 750 card. Nothing about this also affecting the plug in. That post was from March. Later posts, in other forums, stated that the 1.5 version had been updated and was working fine.

In fact I can confirm that it does work. As one of the trouble shooting steps I took was to run the base Octane program and render the sample scenes. To make sure that that part of the software was functional.

2. The DAZ plug in manual ends abruptly after the installation section. Which would be typical of an incomplete manual and / or beta software. If one should then switch to the main manual, then there should be a direction stating such. For the record, I did do this, but since the interfaces are completely different I could not confirm that what I was not missing something.

Like I mentioned to support, I had been looking forward to using Octane since I first heard about it months ago. When I saw that 1.5 came out, I immediately upgraded my video card, eager to get started. Unfortunately it's not to be.