Unfortunately I don't think so. It's a fairly significant investment, mainly due to the cost of purchasing Octane standalone. If it's any consolation, I haven't had a bit of buyer's remorse. This brings up another feature, you can export your entire Carrara scene for rendering directly in Octane standalone (with all lighting, shaders, etc. intact). This can be really handy if you want to use the standalone to render for some reason.

The interactive nature of Octane and the plugin while editing shaders and lighting has dramatically improved/transformed my workflow. The stability of OR4C is exremely good, soooo much better than the DS plugin it's amazing.

Here is a test render of V6 using some SSS shaders I developed on the V5 Bree texture set (I think these got included as a part of the OR4C installation). You really need to zoom in on this one to see the great details.

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