<< Octane still has serious problems with normals, and the developers refuse to acknowledge it.>>

I read the Octane forums almost every day, and I never see any complaints like the one that our accusing them of. About a year ago, there were some issues with normals when the software just came out, but those were promptly fixed. I regularly model in MoI and Blender and render in Octane and never have problems.

The only problem that I have right now is when I try to export/import from MoI to Blender. The latest versions of Blender (2.5x) have problems with MoI normals. Hopefully someone will write a fix.