I'm curious if many people are working with volumes in Solaris Octane 2025? I have some very repeatable crashes when switching from Octane rendering back to OpenGL. I've rolled back to 2024 for now which doesn't exhibit this issue. It stops rendering and snaps straight back to OpenGL as you'd expect.

Is it possible to start wrapping up these version zips a different way? You have nested folders within folders within folders that far too easily hit Windows character limit if you're extracting in-place. Does every version archive need to contain itself? Can it not just contain the contents?

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ETA on new production build?

Appreciate the answer @ghost3d . We use Houdini FX, so having a full license just for rendering Octane is out of the question. Is houdini engine enough for octane to open the hip file and render?
I tried the default submitter but it gave a lot of errors on the network. I'll try again though, must ...

Is there an ETA for a new build with any of these fixes? Particularly the changing point count/flip mesh rendering errors, and the Octane Improvement Project prompt? The latter seems to have the potential to trigger with every new instance of Houdini which on the farm means for every single batch of ...

Would you please let us know what "Do Nothing" is supposed to do? We assume a default value!! https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/lop/editproperties.html
We have a request ticket changing the Octane Render Geometry node to Do Nothing so only the ones they wanted to edit would override ...

Is there any chance this works yet? Or on the roadmap to work? I too need to randomise the colour of a nested instance. The tree/petals example from chocbot shows it perfectly.

Just re-posting some issues from the previous plugin thread, as I don't see bugfixes mentioned for them in the list for this one.

Octane Improvement Project prompt is still randomly appearing and stopping Houdini from loading (Windows). Especially annoying on headless farm machines that look like ...

I'm not going to check every single parm, but Render Geometry Settings still looks to be setting all parameters to default even when set to 'Do Nothing'. As far as I can tell none of the parameter operators work - they're all acting as if they're set to 'Set or Create'. I'm guessing this is a ...

https://i.imgur.com/zo2f8SX.png

This is popping up on every program start regardless of which option you select. Wouldn't be a problem but it stops the rest of the program loading whilst it waits for an answer.

I've just noticed a farm machine has not actually been rendering anything for the ...