I was wondering if there were any advancement in this area ?
Are Phantom / Matte object now supported ?
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I was wondering if there were enhancement regarding orbx import / export / instancing ?
Does any of those area have been enhanced since my initial post ?
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EDIT my bad all is working fine !
- you create the render target inside the shader to specify the export
- you pick the global render target
and it works

and you did add some magic in the scene, the tricks is to :
- unlock the render target
- add a shader merge and plug it
- link the texture ...

thanks a lot for the very fast answer galleon27 !

this is actually what i do in my scene as a temp hack.
i have unlock the default render target hda and plug my texture instance in it directly, and it doesk work.

but i think while this is working, a proper way would be to be able to have a ...

Hi guys.
- I have a point cloud with Cd attribute.
- i copy pack instance a cube on the point cloud, and inherit Cd with the texture instance node
- i would like to output Cd as a global texture 1 AOV

I have try different configuration, but for the moment i have fail to do the export correctly.
I ...

thanks a lot for the extra info !

Thanks a lot for the very fast answer guys.
my bad it's great to see that octane for houdini can also do volumetric displacement.
here is a feature that can't be done in the other GPU engine that some of you know quite well here.

thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge galleon27 !

Hi guys,
I would like to know if volume displacement is supported in Octane for Houdini ?
I know it can be done in standalone and C4d but i am not sure on how to proceed in Houdini.

The C4D process :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI9Ivq58vZ8

basically i would like to shade particle with a ...

thanks for your answer Juanjo. direct matte object support like in RS would be great, but it's a standalone limitation, not a pluggin one.

i would be curious to know if there are progress, on this topic ?
are we now able to render a proper matte object inside octane.
so for exemple i have :
- a mesh of a CG ocean
- a volumetric foam
- a particle spray sim of the foam

but i would like to separate them in comp. so is there a way to ...