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Are you rendering still or animation?
If you`re rendering animation you need to load an existing project for the moment.

animation, so i guess i have to set up the file in Octane first so the batch will use the file to reference it?

Something like that yes. The workflow is to set up basic stuff in max,
then export to octane, set up materials/shaders etc and then save the scene.

Back in max you can then load your existing file and render the animation.

i have set everything, exe, path, name, image location and still nothing....

im using max 2009 x64

I need to know what errors you get at least. Please be detailed or i can`t be to any help

for example i have animation 1-50 frames, and i use 50th for the setup in octane.

This time i bypass the first error but i am still getting Automatic error ( Meshnode for rendering "spidercage" not useable)

I noticed that the .obj file needs to be the same as the .ocs file otherwise the .ocs can't read it if it was generated by the export script .

Are you talking the obj file name has to be same with the octane project name?
i changed that but still giving me the same error

Why do you set the nth frame to 50? That means it renders every 50 frame.

Try this:

- Open max2octane
- Set a new projectname (Spidercage2)
- choose your camera in the dropdownlist
- enable sun if you want that
- Press RENDER button under "frame"-group

Octane then creates a new scenefile called Spidercage2.ocs and starts rendering.
Then adjust the settings shaders/materials etc and SAVE the scene.

- Close octane
- In max2octane, load existing project -> and choose your saved scene (Spidercage2.ocs)
- Setup framestart and end, outputfolder and name, and press RENDER ANIMATION

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thank you for the direction, i gonna try it when get back home