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Hi all

Here is a release with various fixes and improvements.
For the next patch the focus will be Unreal 5.7, Octane 2026 and supporting meshlets and virtual texturing

Octane for Unreal Engine

Changes:

• Upgraded to Octane 2025.5
• Material preview rendering is now asynch, so UI is no longer sluggish in the octane mateiral editor
• Added a fallback node to the Octane to Unreal material converted for nodes that are not supported by the converter or unreal
• Added various node conversions for the Octane to Unreal mateiral converter
• Octane to Unreal mateiral converter now autoformats the created unreal material
• Octane to Unreal mateiral converter now has fewer redundant and duplicate nodes
• Fixed spline mesh issue where incorrect mesh was generated for octane
• Moving nodes in Octane Material Editor is now correctly saved always
• Fixed situation where the usage of vertex normal in materials could break in Octane
• Fixed Unreal to Octane material conversion crash
• Camera now works correctly when rendering out a sequence via the commandline
• Fixed MRQ crash
• RGB Image nodes now accept any type of texture instead of only texture2d
• Animated textures now work in octane materials
• Animated textures are now in the correct color space
• R32 float and ARGRf32 support for textures

WIN
UE 5.6
Studio+ Installer: https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloads/plugins/26/e2/b8/bc/OctaneStudio0_86_UE5_6.exe
Free Version Installer: https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads/2c/ba/95/f8/OctanePrime0_86_UE5_6.exe

UE 5.5
Studio+ Installer: https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloads/plugins/63/43/88/02/OctaneStudio0_86_UE5_5.exe
Free Version Installer:https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads/af/11/72/48/OctanePrime0_86_UE5_5.exe