Otoy® is proud to announce the availability of a new version of OctaneRender™ for SketchUp® 2024, 2025 & 2026 C API integration.
The world's fastest and most feature-rich unbiased render engine that integrates complete SketchUp and native features.
For example, Shadows, Layers, Native material ...

caseyhupke wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2026 3:42 pm it looks like this build reintroduced the 'slave' terminology. I don't think I've seen them labeled like that in a long time.

Hi caseyhupke,

Thank you for the heads up on this!!
We have replace the terminology to Net node for the next build!

cheers

Solaris IPR Does Not Update Material Changes Without Resetting the Render

I'm experiencing a persistent issue with OctaneRender in Houdini Solaris that has been present for several versions, including OctaneRender 2026.6.0.0 for Houdini Production.

Whenever I make changes to a material in ...

i’m coming over from cinema4D to Houdini and I wondered if there was ever going to be a companion Trello Board set up for the Houdini builds by chance? -

It would be great to have - the one that they do for cinema 4D builds is excellent!


Hi cjadams,

Thank you for the suggestion.
We can ...

Hello,

I'm having trouble to get same results between the viewport, MPLAY and After Effects while using OCIO with .exr, is there any workaround that I could follow ?

Thank you in advance


Hi remKa,

Thank you for the post.

Are you using the native OCIO configs in Houdini and After Effects or ...

on the latest version and issue is worse than ever. pretty much opening anything restarts an ipr render. open kernel settings--restart. open imager--restart, open post processor--restart.

This bug is so egregious,---spanning multiple versions, computers, multiple files and versions of maya--I ...

Thank you for your time, it's working !

I have a request though, in 3ds Max the passes have clear and readable names, in Houdini the acronyms are hard to work with.

Exemple : Test.OctaneRenderSetup1.cm-Mnn.all.0001 -> Test.CryptoMatte-Materialnodename.0001


Thanks remKa, for your feedback.
Yes ...

Oh, I didn't understand that it was a multilayer pass rendering, I was expecting different files names... so I have to use extractor to get reflection pass for exemple ?


Oh hey remKa, thanks for the quick reply..
We can render the AOVs as different files names too.. Please uncheck the `Save ...

Hello,

I'm having trouble the AOV passes (cryptomatte node name, denoised reflection etc...), they show up in the IPR but they are not saved when I render to disk.

I'm new to Octane for Houdini, did I miss something ?

Thank you in advance


Hi remKa,

Thank you for the post.
OctaneRender for ...

filipe_sheepwolf wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2026 3:34 pm Thank you for adding VDB support! It's so great to see this finally working!

Thank you Filipe,

Yes, Jim worked on it real fast!
A big thanks to him!

cheers