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Hello,
I'm new to octane and for years I've been wanting to learn Octane render for C4D but haven't been able to cause I never had a windows with Nvidia GPU. I managed to download the latest Octane X and the standalone app seem to function alright and was able to render. However when I'm playing around in C4D, I realise the plugin was barely usable. The Material editor is always empty every time I try to edit a material, even the node editor was empty as well and the materials can't seem to be changed at all. I tried searching everywhere and couldn't figure out what's the issue at all.
Is there anyone having the same issue? Did you find any solution?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Kamada,
c4doctane plugin has its own Node Editor, and you need to create an Octane material for using it.

First of all, please go to Octane Setting/Nodes, and disable the New style option, or material preview doesn't work in node editor: Then please go to C4D material manager and create an Octane material from Octane menu: Then, in Attribute editor go to the Basic tab and press the Node Editor button:
ciao,
Beppe