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... the first Octane alpha 1 around January 2010.
There was not an addon/plugin these times, a user (yoyoz) wrote an exporter and gave it to the masses.
Cycles was not even born ...

When do you start with Octane?

Cheers, mib

I had been following Octane from 2009 but I didn't actually start using it until the Linux version came out at around the same time as you mib. I had just stopped using Indigo because it went commercial and they wanted more for it than my budget could handle. Haven't looked back since.

Good question.
My latest tests are more than a year ago.
The full integration of Octane into Blender did never convince me because it had alot of bugs and did not support needed features - Cycles was mutch more flexible and closer to production use.

Meanwhile Corona Render has become a very interesting competitor, but the Script for Blender has been stopped.

Conclusion:
The best for production use (architecture visualizations) is still 3D Studio Max and V-Ray (maybe Corona will be better one day...).

I fear that no one will ever take Blender for serious if he doesn't have to (because of money issues for example).

Kind regards
Alain

We've been using Blender and Octane for over 4 years and it works great for us. Still use the script yoyoz created (modified a couple of things to work better with our workflow). It's not an excellent solution but it works well enough. I am going to get 1 license of the official plugin for 3.0 when it comes out (we have one for 1.x now) and see how far along it came, it might be production ready now.

What for what business do you create renderings ?

Our company is pixelperfect-studios.com

We do renderings for office furniture dealers/manufactures, home builders and architects.