im coming back to octane after a little while now that it has attributes (which seems to work great btw :D), just installed this version and im not sure if im missing something... but i cant get lights to work. i made a simple scene with a box, render target and a octane light. it seems like only ...

Guys, almost 3 years I was waiting support of geometry attributes in shader level which is most useful thing in houdini when creating a motion design or infographics.
This 3 years I was using another render. But decided to check, what changed here.
I downloaded latest version and guess what? Still ...

Guys, almost 3 years I was waiting support of geometry attributes in shader level which is most useful thing in houdini when creating a motion design or infographics.
This 3 years I was using another render. But decided to check, what changed here.
I downloaded latest version and guess what? Still ...

Any news about OSL, point\curves rendering in coming release?
If to be honest, Octane in Houdini looks like alpha version with minimum functionality right now. Only for simple tests.
Besides, with longest development cycles.
I am a disappointed by that. I really expect to see native attribute ...

Hello.
Is it possible to make object invisible for reflactions'refractions?

example - invisible light

Thanks

tigher,
Thank you for feedback.
I agree, in internet you can find a lot of tutorials, but I don't see any production ready-tools for doing the same.
You need to spend a time for repeat tutor and it is not so simple as many would like.
I think I will make this tool free soon.

TBaker - Bake animated point color attribute to texture
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Dear Octane users.
I proudly present little research to simplify Octane user's life in Houdini.
As you know, according limitations of Octane, you can't directly render color attribute in Octane at this moment. I really hope ...

juanjgon , I am sorry about it.
My mistake - I just used wrong expression. $F and should $F4.
Now its working ok.

About node - could you write about promotion a little bit more?
Maybe I just don't understand how to do this.

Hello.
It is so sad that impossible to make parameter for texture file path from Texture image RGB node.
More over, I cant use $F expression inside octane shading network
so animated textures is impossible to use in houdini with octane at all.

Please fix it
Thanks

juanjgon, any news about custom attributes in shaders ?