Is this forum dead ?

[pegot]

Please come to Facebook Octane group, there are some users with Blender + Octane:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OctaneRender/

Thanks but that requires a Facebook login and I absolutely refuse to join Facebook.

I'm with you grimm - I don't do Facebook either. Guess I'm just anti- social

[01rich01]

Our internal V3 plug-ins are not being ignored. On the contrary, they are under heavy development (we are also bringing on new resources in the coming weeks for Maya). These plug-ins have to be heavily refactored to support an experimental and important feature we have wanted to bring to Octane, but weren't sure was viable. To make it happen (and now is the time) we need to validate that it works first through our own V3 plug-ins before exposing it in the SDK for 3rd party plug-ins .

At GTC we will do a deep dive on how this feature works, and map out its implications (which are many). At that time, possibly sooner, we'd also like to release a beta of all 3 plug-ins on the forums.

Good to hear! looking forward to V3 with Blender

[prodviz]

No, it's not dead, just slumbering. This happens when the devs are deeply embedded into doing new code, in this case it's for V3. Soon it will be active again, I'm assuming that they are getting ready for GTC.

Not all devs are equal

Some devs post frequently, release updates regularly and are generally more accessible in the forum. We all know who they are.

Some plugins and devs are the opposite of this, and we have been promised more support is coming, which we all hope will help.

From my side, we've had almost 2 months without a version 3 to test (for Maya, Max and Blender), in comparison to other plugins, and the latest Maya forum comments, said something about Jim being super busy - this doesn't sound like Otoy have found any more support just yet.

Such a shame, man.

Our internal V3 plug-ins are not being ignored. On the contrary, they are under heavy development (we are also bringing on new resources in the coming weeks for Maya). These plug-ins have to be heavily refactored to support an experimental and important feature we have wanted to bring to Octane, but weren't sure was viable. To make it happen (and now is the time) we need to validate that it works first through our own V3 plug-ins before exposing it in the SDK for 3rd party plug-ins .

At GTC we will do a deep dive on how this feature works, and map out its implications (which are many). At that time, possibly sooner, we'd also like to release a beta of all 3 plug-ins on the forums.

Thanks for the update and awesome news on the new resource.
Looking forward to the new features.

[prehabitat]

Please come to Facebook Octane group, there are some users with Blender + Octane:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/OctaneRender/

Thanks but that requires a Facebook login and I absolutely refuse to join Facebook.

I'm with you grimm - I don't do Facebook either. Guess I'm just anti- social

I don't do Facebook either.

I wouldn't call myself paranoid; I use gmail and google (although recently with tracking blockers & add blockers). Just never got off on the vibe. Instagram is more my thing. More positivity, less editorialising, more art and it's not evident at every turn that I'm part of someone else's product* & subjecting myself to being force-fed advertising. Might have changed since I last went there...
I use my wife's account for checking in on the Quixel crew.

*the company my wife works for recently did some advertising with Facebook and its criminal the granularity you can specify the target audience. Think of advance search on steriods; 20-23 year old married males who are interested in X/y & Z but not a, B & C, who went to this school, live in that area and have searched for G, H & F search terms ever...

[SreckoM]

Blender plugin dev is non existent. I paid 140 eur for it and from moment I purchased it, 3 MONTHS ago I can not use it decently. Latest version neither version before...
If you can not develop it on regular base than do not sell it, simple as that. It just feels liek scam ...