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Octane Panel is Grayed

billyroscobillyrosco Posts: 56
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I installed the Octane Plugins for Daz Studio, paid for a license (subscription?) for it, but when I go into the panel, all of the buttons are gray, and it is asking me to locate the file named 'OctaneRender_settings.oczdb'. 

After this, I uninstalled Octane and reinstalled, but still have this problem. Am I missing a step?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,749

    Did you activate it (enter the serial number or account details, I'm not sure how it works)?

  • billyroscobillyrosco Posts: 56

    As far as I know, I was not provided a serial number when I paid for the subscription on the Octane main site. I'll continue to try to fix this and will update the thread when I find a solution. 

  • Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,113

    I went ahead and installed Octane. The installer located my DS installation. I accepted that. Then it installed. Then a black window opened that said that some file was need for cuda (the nvidia graphis card. There were 2 buttons. One to open the download location and the other to let the installer download. It said you could also download it manually. I chose the option to allow it to download. After that finished, I had to log into my Otoy account to activate. It said it was activated. I then opened DS and I went to the plug-ins panel but it was already checked. Then I opened the Octane panel and it was active and ready to use.

    Did you allow it to download the dll that it said was needed for the graphics card?

  • Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,113

    But now that I've installed it, if I open DS and then close it without doing anything, it asks me if I want to save the blank scene and if I say NO then DS won't start again unless I restart my machine.

  • Kev914Kev914 Posts: 1,113

    I guess you just have to wait a little while after you close DS before you can re-open it again. I was able to re-launch DS without re-booting after I watched one of the Octane videos and then came back to it and tried again.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,749

    KevinH said:

    But now that I've installed it, if I open DS and then close it without doing anything, it asks me if I want to save the blank scene and if I say NO then DS won't start again unless I restart my machine.

    I think the Octane plugin creates data nodes, so even an empty scene will have changed.

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