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Powel2097 wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:14 pm A weird bug. Happening all the time.
empty scene.
create an Octane Camera.
On the Camera Tag, enabling the Imager.
Crashes Cinema.

Cinema 4D 2025.5.3

zhuomuniao123456 wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:16 pm octane 2026 非常卡 巨卡无比 有中国的伙伴跟我一样的问题吗？我是3*5090 内存256G 显存没吃满的，我用 2025.1.6 的版本就很顺 但是2026是特别卡 特别慢 ！ 到底是什么设置导致2026如此卡和慢 ？

Powel2097 wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 8:52 am Another thing I just noticed, and can´t find a solution.
No matter what settings I use. I can´t get out a normal Beauty pass AND a denoised pass.

I want to be able to select in After Effects which layer to use od the beauty. But it is not possible anymore.
Is this a bug or intentional?

bepeg4d wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:26 am

Powel2097 wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 8:52 am Another thing I just noticed, and can´t find a solution.
No matter what settings I use. I can´t get out a normal Beauty pass AND a denoised pass.

I want to be able to select in After Effects which layer to use od the beauty. But it is not possible anymore.
Is this a bug or intentional?

Hi,

Are you saving your results only from Render Settings>OctaneRender>Render AOV Manager tab?

You need to avoid to save your results from C4D Save panel.

And which saving format are you using exactly?

ciao,
Beppe

Powel2097 wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:51 am

bepeg4d wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:26 am

Powel2097 wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 8:52 am Another thing I just noticed, and can´t find a solution.
No matter what settings I use. I can´t get out a normal Beauty pass AND a denoised pass.

I want to be able to select in After Effects which layer to use od the beauty. But it is not possible anymore.
Is this a bug or intentional?

Hi,

Are you saving your results only from Render Settings>OctaneRender>Render AOV Manager tab?

You need to avoid to save your results from C4D Save panel.

And which saving format are you using exactly?

ciao,
Beppe

I am using the Octane saving Panel.
With EXR Format.
Other Passes like AO are coming through.

I get aAmbient Occlusion pass and Denoised beauty pass.

But not a Beauty pass.

I tried all combinations with save beauty on, and save denoised beauty off. both on, both off, switched. nothing helps.

DinoMuhic wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 12:07 pm

Powel2097 wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:51 am

bepeg4d wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:26 am

Hi,

Are you saving your results only from Render Settings>OctaneRender>Render AOV Manager tab?

You need to avoid to save your results from C4D Save panel.

And which saving format are you using exactly?

ciao,
Beppe

I am using the Octane saving Panel.
With EXR Format.
Other Passes like AO are coming through.

I get aAmbient Occlusion pass and Denoised beauty pass.

But not a Beauty pass.

I tried all combinations with save beauty on, and save denoised beauty off. both on, both off, switched. nothing helps.

I assume you are using Multilayer EXRs?

With Multilayer EXRs the Beauty will be stored directly into the RGBA channels of the EXR file. Named "R", "G", "B" and "A". This is the correct way, which the C4D Octane plugin did not follow until now.
This is a change in 1.9.0 so it works in combination with rendering in Octane Standalone or Render Network. And to make previews work by default in AE and other tools.
You now do not need the Extractor anymore for example to display the main (beauty/denoised beauty) pass.
If you enable "Denoised Beauty" but also enable "Use Denoised Beauty Pass" then the Denoised Beauty will instead be stored in the RGBA channels.
See the table we added now in the first post of this thread.

The old workflow had 2 problems:
1) When using Multilayer EXRs, there were no default R, G, B and A channels present, so the preview inside compositing apps was always black.
2) Since Octane Standalone and Render Network correctly use the R, G, B and A channels you were not able to mix locally rendered files from the C4D Octane plugin with files rendered on the network and in standalone.

So we opted for this approach now.
We could have also stored the R,G,B and A channels and then added another copy of the main channel and called it "Beauty" but that woud have unnecessary inflated the EXR filesize with redundant data.