A guide to start OctaneRender for Blender

Octane is one of the best choices for Blender, along with Cycles and Eevee. It gains the popularity through its fast-rendering speed and unbiased features. Today, let’s check out a complete guide on how to start OctaneRender for Blender. We will try to help you install Octane for Blender and troubleshoot activation issue if you encounter it.

You will need to prepare some of the following:

• • • • Blender – OctaneRender edition
      • OctaneServer
      • Blender application

This instruction is for Windows users.

Step 1) You install Blender – OctaneRender edition. If there’s a previous version of Blender – OctaneRender edition installed, then close Blender – OctaneRender edition and the OctaneServer and run the installation file that you downloaded from the OTOY website and follow the installation instructions.

Step 2) You install OctaneServer. If a previous version of OctaneServer is installed and running, then close it and run the installation file. Follow the instructions. On Windows systems, you can close OctaneServer by right-clicking on the Server icon in the Windows tray.

Step 3) After installing those two files, we open OctaneServer first. Then you login your OTOY account credentials to authenticate OctaneRender.

Step 4) After that, we open Blender application to check if Octane Render engine is activated. To do this, you go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Render: OctaneRender engine. Check it if it’s not activated.

To render with the plugin, choose Octane from the Render Engines rollout.

Sometimes you may encounter the activation issue on Octane for Blender, it’s “Not activated” error. To troubleshoot, kindly follow these instructions.

Above is the “not activated” message appear after you start the render but the rendered image is not showing. The solution for that is checking the activation state of the OctaneServer. You can go to the Render rollout menu.

You can also re-authenticate the plugin from the Render rollout menu.

Sometimes you might receive an error saying “All OSE License Unavailable…”. You should check and make sure that a Render Node daemon from OctaneRender Standalone is not running on the Primary Render Node.

This article is to help you get started with Octane for Blender. You can follow the instruction on your local PC, or on our remote computers.

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Source and images: docs.otoy.com