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Hi everyone,

with Blender 5.1, adding Octane lights from:

Add → Light → [Octane Light]

always creates a light with a Cycles light shader instead of the correct Octane shader.

Waiting for a proper fix (Blender Foundation may be involved in this), I created a small addon that bypasses the issue by appending fully configured Octane lights from a .blend library instead of creating them procedurally.

This ensures:

• correct Octane shader assignment

• intact node trees

• consistent behavior

Important

For now, please use:

Add → Light → Octane Light Library

instead of the standard Octane light entries.


How it works

The addon includes a .blend file with pre-configured lights.

When adding a light from:

Add → Light → Octane Light Library

it:

• loads the light from the Lights datablock

• creates it in the scene

• places it at the 3D cursor

• sets it as active

Naming is handled normally by Blender (.001, .002, etc.).

Installation

Install the attached .zip from Preferences → Add-ons
Enable the addon

Notes

• Temporary workaround

• Non-invasive (does not override existing operators)

• Not needed once the issue is fixed upstream

Hope this helps.