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I understand that the stand alone version of Octane has to be purchased before buying a plugin. The stand alone edition looks really robust with features.

What are the benefits to using the stand alone version instead of a plugin - or do people use both.

thanks,
Julian

There is a lot of 3d apps which has no integrated plugin yet or not planned to be release one. Maybe the best benefit is you can use octane.

I use both, especially as the plugins haven't caught up with 2.0 yet. I can use 2.0 features in standalone right now, it's just not as convenient as the plugins.

I find that the stand alone really works well for us. We are able to take geometry and apply different materials quickly and render out different render targets. Also we can have multiple people working in separate files and just merge the .objs into out Octane file.

Awesome - makes it well worth learning.

thanks!

Can we export say a complete scene from Blender or Vue and take it inside the stand alone version for rendering?

Yep

No, not complete scenes, at least from VUE. But you can export every tree etc. as .obj and import in Octane

Since objects can't be moved around in Octane - is there an update function in Octane if a scene is changed and exported again.

thanks,

Yes...When you load an OBJ into Octane, it creates a Mesh node that has a file reference. Next to the filename there's a "Refresh" button. So whenever you update the OBJ in your modeling application, you can export it again and hit Refresh and it will update the scene (as long as the file is in the same location).