Woah what year is it?! I am ready for the future great work Otoy team!

Does anyone have an in-render way to get similar wave effects that come from heat in the air? Similar to the OP reference.

Hi, thank you.

When I enable network rendering in the ROP - that session connects to the node and it's great. But then I submit the houdini scene to deadline, using their plugin, and that instance of the scene doesn't establish a connection to the node.

In the C4D plugin there is an option to ...

Looking to know more about this too - some kind of steal function that could be scripted.

Yes I understand there is a difference that is why I asked. I’ll wait to hear when you think it is good to update C4D. I’m sorry to hear they have been changing a lot of things on the backend effecting your plugin. Hopefully they are done with that…

The requirements mention support of R2024.1.0 does that mean 2024.2 isn’t fully supported yet?

Thanks for this guide - I've been meaning to update my default cinema config to use the new OCIO features inside cinema. Following your directions with the latest C4D 2024 & Octane plugin I noticed I need slightly different settings to achieve the same results.

In the "Set Up Color Management In ...

[..] One thing i noticed is that some photons seem to go through the material and create unwanted spots. Is there some setting I can use to prevent this from happening?

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Are you using an analytical light here? If so I’d use another light type as I’ve found those lights have ...

ISSUE: Using latest c4d & octane R4 beta - after changing an area light to an analytical light if you use the octane light manager to make any adjustments or enable/disable a light it reverts to a primitive light type.

Can you explain a little more about your setup in Houdini? For example how are you instancing the sand geo on top points? Octane requires the use of Object level instance node.

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/obj/instance.html

https://docs.otoy.com/HoudiniH/HoudiniPluginManual.htm ...