Hi Barry - I took a look at your scene - I'm using Houdini 18.5.462 and Octane_2020.2.0.4_Houdini_18.5.462_Win64.. It worked! Maybe try updating..

Also watch your Render Node Daemon and make sure it's not already connected to another machine.

Good luck!

Hi there! I was running into the same issue..

The culprit:
Houdini Octane main plugin (octane rop) is binding to the slave therefore making it unavailable to PDG/hython.exe octane. You should turn off network rendering in the octane rop network options, or:

Open Texport and run a command prior to ...

Network options window doesn't show my slave... Is this disable for Indie users?

Hi, I have been experience issues with octane's subdivision in a project that was created on 3.08-- currently using 4.0-RC5.

Sometimes when I render this project, the subdivision under the octane object tag does not come through. It sometimes works and sometimes does not and I can't say I ...