Thanks for the answer! Split diopter is super cool, but not exactly what i am looking for.

Essentially, i want to have an object (the window) totally exluded from the DOF. But i guess thats not possible.


Yeah no that's not possible. Only way to do that is to render it separately and comp ontop ...

Hey there!

I'm not entirely sure I understand your request.
When you want to have "depth of field" so foreground/background blur you will need to set a focus point.
So you will have to choose wither your window or your background to be in focus. You can't have both in focus and out of focus. Unless ...

lavrenovlad wrote: Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:35 am May I ask to make the "Zoom Perspective" icon sticky in the IPR like "Disable DOF? Because it gets reset every time I reload IPR or press "Reset Perspective", it gets tiring clicking on it every time I wanna zoom in.

This is not a bad idea. Will recommend it.

Hey Greg,

your setup should work fine, just enable "Packed Geo Instancing" on grid1 SOP's Octane tab.

Chris.


Just checked too and it definitely works.

Screenshot 2025-10-11 123623.png

Things to check:
1. Your object is a packed
2. Enable "packed instances" in the octane object parms
3 ...

As I'm sure you saw we added the option to open the folder!
Also there already is a delete all warning - is this not something you got?

I did use the json/sh install and have the proper .json file in .../20.5/packages. Most things seem to work, I can render. Here's the contents of the package fine:

{
"enable": true,
"env": [
{
"OCTANE_AUTOSPAREPARAMS": {
"value": 1
}
},
{
"OCTVERSION": "/Volumes/Disk00/3D Modeling/Octane ...

Attached is the .hiplc for the above image.

Thank you!


Hey there!
Sorry for the delayed response!
Unfortunately the Houdini volume implementation has had a lot of issues.
We did a major overhaul on this on the latest 2026 alpha - but of course this is not available for macos yet.

You should ...

Yeah we don't support splitting the ORBX yet but will be looking into it.


Hi

Sorry for my reeeaaaly delayed reply (Did not got an email as I forgot to ticket that option.)

I stated 2 possible options to export archive files:
1) 1 archive file per frame
2) A single archive file that contains ...

I've been running into this issue when loading files that contain an Octane Quick Material. Project file, text log and screenshot in the Dropbox link.

Running on Houdini 21.0.440

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qjnd6f16vkxkukph7m083/AIuV2c-2UgEXq5GE4ppNxNE?rlkey=6rk1w1rmn2q7f43pu8vnglvio&dl=0 ...

Hey everyone,

Copying Octane_Lights results in a bunch of errors saying parameters don't exist etc. Could you take a look at it? Octane Lights specifically not Universal Lights. Also opening HIP files with these Octane Lights also raises some errors all the time. They seem to work fine though ...