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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, 2014 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

• Fixed mix material "amount" value bug.
• Added scene export for OSX and Linux.
• Implemented camera mapping for Octane image textures (new "Camera mapped" checkbox).
• Implemented support of camera image planes. Remember that Octane is unbiased renderer so don't expect all the image plane's biased features implemented. All you get - the "real-world" textured diffuse panel, which acts like real-world object inside the scene. You can combine it with objects textured by the same image with "Camera mapped" checkbox set.
• Minor fixes and improvements...

DOWNLOAD

OctaneRender for Maya 2.23.2 - 7.4 (12.3MB autoinstaller file)
OctaneRender for Maya 2.23.2 - 7.4 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.

Hi Jim, thanks for the update, is there a way to hide the imageplane from the render?, I tried hiding it but still renders, the only way so far is deleting it?

Hi jim
I try to update my octane for maya but it slower

Hi Jim

With 2.23.2 - 7.4 my Maya crashed always when rendering in a resolution of HD1080 (Render view). HD720 and HD540 worked fine. Uninstalled+installed plugin, issue stayed.
What I noticed was, that the render view stayed black and the samples where counting up, as it would, when rendering. After some seconds Maya crashed.

I switched back to 2.22.2 - 7.0, there it workes fine.

Implemented camera mapping for Octane image textures (new "Camera mapped" checkbox).
Implemented support of camera image planes. Remember that Octane is unbiased renderer so don't expect all the image plane's biased features implemented. All you get - the "real-world" textured diffuse panel, which acts like real-world object inside the scene. You can combine it with objects textured by the same image with "Camera mapped" checkbox set.

Hi Jim,
Deeply thank you for these long waited features.
This is perfect.

cyrillweiss
Thank you for report!
I was able to reproduce it. Will be fixed in next version soon.

Next version HERE.