Limitations

If there are multiple GDL materials in the scene which have the same material name, these materials will all be treated as one single Octane material.
MaterialThe representation of the surface or volume properties of an object. picker does not work for Curtain Wall objects (go into edit mode to get materials for these elements)
The ArchiCAD Perspective camera roll angle is not transposed to the Octane thinlens “up” pin. If you need to rotate the render, manually adjust the “up” vector.
Image map rotation is not current supported by OctaneRender, so any rotation of texturemaps in ArchiCAD materials is ignored in the texture conversion to Octane.
Axonometry views are not supported. For orthographic renders, use a Perspective camera, and enable the “orthographic” pin on the “camera” node in the Settings Tab of the plugin.
The Octane “checks” node does not work correctly on slanted surfaces. Use a texture map instead.
Navigating an ArchiCAD via the “Explore” options does not work while the Octane Viewport is open.
Due to a bug in ArchiCAD, after you exit to ProxyAn object saved as a separate file with the purpose of being reused in larger scenes. This is used to minimize any addition to the total polygon count in the scene, especially if the scene requires the same object to appear several times. If used in conjunction with instancing, Proxies help keep very large scenes from reaching polygon limits and also keeps the relative file size of the main project file manageable. setup window, you can not re-select that ArchiCAD object unless you move the camera, or switch to a 2d view
Proxies will only render when using the OctaneRender Viewport. They will not render when using the ArchiCAD Photorender Projection
ArchiCAD Surface names should be 30 characters or less. This is because the ArchiCAD API only returns the first 30 characters of a surface name.

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