OTOY® is proud to announce the availability of the new DCC plugin OctaneRender for HoudiniSolaris 2026.2.0.0 release .

The world's fastest unbiased GPU rendering engine on CUDA and Metal now integrates completely with Houdini 20.0, Houdini 20.5 & Houdini 21.0 Solaris.
OctaneSolaris builds ...

Kajetan wrote: Tue Feb 17, 2026 9:01 am Chinese-speaking users are delighted, thank you!

Thank you Kajetan,

We are so pleased to hear that..
Please let us know if there is anything we can improve!!


cheers

Light passes in this release are unusable, I'm not even sure where to begin explaining just quite how bizarrely broken they are - for example things like changing the order in which the light nodes are connected to the tree appear to affect the results.
The primvars seem to be getting assigned ...

Lewis wrote: Tue Feb 03, 2026 3:04 pm Thanks LW team and Otoy for quick response/upload.

Thanks, Lewis, yeah, a big thanks to the Lightwave team!

cheers

Hi all,

This is an Octane for LightWave 2025.0.4 including the Octane 2025.5 stable core . Please make sure to use a NVIDIA Studio driver with version at least 522.22 on Windows

To download Render Node app, please check out the 2025.5 release post


Release 2025.5 Studio+ subscription license ...

Hey Otoy! On January 30th 2026, Lightwave 2025.0.4 is finally available with Octane Render 2025.5 prime

Please review the new plugin version and release the studio version for us ;)

Thanks and happy rendering :D


Hi PaGz,

Thank you so much for the info.
We will update the studio version as ...

Further on to some of the colour discussions on the previous page, Octane in Solaris is still not correctly managing the colour primaries. Below is the same ACEScg image, correctly tagged, in Nuke, Octane 'standard' (sops/mat/out), Karma in Solaris and Octane in Solaris. All viewed with ACES 1.0 ...

Hi,

I’d also like to report the following issues in Octane Solaris for Houdini.

- Particles are still rendered as instanced sphere meshes instead of true sphere particles, making renders extremely heavy and unusable with high particle counts.
- Denoiser still does not work. Even after ...

Hi,

I’d also like to report the following issues in Octane Solaris for Houdini.

- Particles are still rendered as instanced sphere meshes instead of true sphere particles, making renders extremely heavy and unusable with high particle counts.
- Denoiser still does not work. Even after restarting ...

Dear users,

With the release of OctaneRender 2026.1, we are excited to introduce a new build of Octane with support for internationalization. This build enables users to use Octane in simplified Chinese as their main language with a high degree of accuracy.

To receive updates about new Chinese ...