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Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new version of OctaneRender™ for Maya®
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates completely into Autodesk® Maya®.

Maya® Version Requirements

This release will work with Maya® Versions 2013, 2013.5 / 32-bit & 64-bit, 2014 64-bit and 2015 64-bit on MS Windows operating systems.

Notes regarding features/functionality

OctaneRender™ for Maya® implements almost full functionality of OctaneRender™ standalone inside Maya®.

COMPATIBILITY AND OCTANERENDER STANDALONE REQUIREMENT

To run OctaneRender™ for Maya®, you need to also have an activated OctaneRender™ Standalone copy activated on the machine you wish to install the plugin onto.
You cannot purchase and use only the Maya plugin and use it without also owning an activated copy of OctaneRender™ Standalone on your machine.


HOW TO PURCHASE LICENSES

Go to our online shop here: http://render.otoy.com/shop/

If you do not own an OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition License yet:
You can purchase both the OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition and the OctaneRender™ for Maya® Edition as a reduced price bundle, purchase the bundle priced at 459€

If you already own one or more OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition licenses you want to pair the plugin with:
Purchase an "OctaneRender™ for Maya® License" priced at 199€

You can also purchase a 3, 5 or 10 pack of OctaneRender™ for Maya® licenses, just like OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition packs.


OCTANELIVE

Just like OctaneRender™ Standalone, the Maya® plugin product also needs an additional OctaneLive license and be activated on a machine.
This has to be done in the plugin interface panel in Maya, and is covered in the included PDF manual.
It can only be done after an OctaneRender™ Standalone license is already activated on the machine in question.


CHANGES SINCE THE PREVIOUS VERSION

• New 2.23.2 engine.
• New "Cube map" camera modes added: now you can render different faces of cube map separately.

DOWNLOAD

OctaneRender for Maya 2.23.2 - 7.3 (12.3MB autoinstaller file)
OctaneRender for Maya 2.23.2 - 7.3 Demo (10.8MB autoinstaller file)

For network slave and daemon please download standalone installer here:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=46125


Yours,
The OctaneRender™ Team.

Thanks for upadate Jim, I had write this question could you give one help on that, Please?

..."Hi Guys,

I just was wondering how to see a backplate on the render (Maya)? any advise...I know in the standalone is possible but in Maya doesn't look to be possible. maybe a option at the camera calling the background option on the standalone so we could plug a image for the background at the camera?

Thanks Guys"....

...New 2.23.2 engine."

you're ahead of the game on this one, the dev build thread still only has the 2.22.2 engine.!

This release crashes for me in maya 2015. I cannot save a - empty - scene without maya crashing.

RickToxik wrote:This release crashes for me in maya 2015. I cannot save a - empty - scene without maya crashing.

Do you mean only empty scene causes the crash?.. Is it OK if you save non-empty scene?

No, I was not able to save any scene. I went back and re-installed the stable build (2.11). Now this morning it crashed maya when I tried to re-open the scene I'm working on, I uninstalled octane for maya and the scene re-opens fine. If I am the only one experiencing constant crashes, I would suggest you investigate if a conflict between arnold and octane could be causing that, as both plugins adds custom attributes in the shape tabs of all objects. I had it working yesterday with the stable build but crashes on opening and saving scenes is critical...

If the number of render frames is the same length as the keyframe animation there is an error (in the render log with verbose mode):

Error: Subframe motion blur animation requires extra frame after the animation's end frame.

Would be great if Octane adds a key automatically in the end of the anim.

Hi Jim, this version of octane still have a lot of bugs in the materials, I did a project with some examples and I recorded some videos included in the zip file, hope this helps to fix them. thanks.

abeoctane
Thank you for report.
I'm working on it...

Next version HERE.