So I have a basic setup with some simple geometry.

As far as I can tell Octane is installed correctly.

With NO lights created when I open IPR I still get a distant light rendered. GI is also completely turned off.

Where does this light come from and how can I disable?

Are there any Octane ...

There don't seem to be any tutorials at all focused on the Octane plugin for Houdini. I am primarily interested in rendering fluid and particle sims. Can any Octane experts suggest a few tutorials for me to focus on?

Of course so many variables involved, but for a 'typical' scene on a mid level GPU (running Houdini on a Dell XPS 15 , NVIDIA 960 GPU, quad i7's) what type of rendering speed improvement can I expect over Mantra which is CPU based? 10% improvement? More?

I'm primarily interested in particle and ...

Hi
Houdini novice creating a test render scene and going through Rohan Dalvi's tutorials. Many questions but my first is lights in Octane.

What is the default distant or spotlight you see when doing a render (without any actual lights setup)? How to edit or remove?
Does Octane require you to create ...