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[ratshole]

Hi
Help, when I turn on Octane Arealight an open the window Live Viewer an error appears. Without Arealight everything works fine.

attached file _BugReport.txt https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ezvrqH ... sp=sharing

[bepeg4d]

@zantell1:
please write to help at otoy dot com asking for Beppe!
You are the first one reporting this, and I need to investigate.

@cjadams:
Octane Server new feature is under development and works only for Windows for now.

And it is not an alternative to Network Rendering, but to Headless rendering (the possibility to run OctaneRender® on machines without a supported GPU).

Blender plugin does have an Octane Server but it only works for the license, due to particular open source nature of Blender.

About Blender issues, sorry, I'm not a Blender user.
Please ask on the forum here:
viewforum.php?f=32

Or at least, write to help at otoy com, thanks.

ciao,
Beppe

[cjadams]

Sorry but i don’t seem to have access to the blender forums.. i have a ticket in right now for that.. in the mean time.. are you telling me that there is a version of octane that can do network rendering on blender with a PC with RTX card in it from the mac as the main user machine? - I already am a paid octane studio subscriber. and had this all working fine with C4d….but seems this is missing or i can’t find the right combo of downloads for blender to replicate this setup.

1 - Can you confirm i can use octane and blender on the mac and network rendering to the the PC with an rtx card in it.. like i did with C4d?

[bepeg4d]

Ok, you need Blender Octane 2024.1 -29.16 version for macOS:
viewtopic.php?f=113&t=84276

Here are the direct links to Blender Octane 29.16:
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... stable.zip

And to corresponding Blender Octane Server:
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... stable.zip

Then you can find Network Rendering preferences here:

ciao,
Beppe

[tsykhra]

I've downloaded Octane for Blender 29.18 and Octane Server but I can't open server on Sonoma 14.6.1, M3Max 16/48

[bepeg4d]

I've downloaded Octane for Blender 29.18 and Octane Server but I can't open server on Sonoma 14.6.1, M3Max 16/48

Hi,
everything is working as expected here in both Sonoma and Sequoia:

Please try to download againBlenderOctane 29.18 from the following links:
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... stable.zip
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... stable.zip

ciao,
Beppe

[tsykhra]

Same issue

[bepeg4d]

Weird, Blender Octane Server 29.18 is working with no issues here in Sonoma 14.7.1

ciao,
Beppe

[tsykhra]

I've asked 3 people with macs
1. MacBook Pro 2017 with Ventura 13.7.1 - crossed out
2. MacBook Air M1 with Sonoma 4.1 —crossed out
3. MacBook Pro M4 Max 16/48 with Sequoia 15.2 — OK

[tsykhra]

Updated MacOS to Sequoia 15.2 - Now everything is ok, so I think minimum system requirements for Octane server 29.18 is Sonoma 14.7, not 14.5 as stated on download page. I had 14.6.1