Hey BK - Indeed I think that might have just been a bug. On a fresh scene it will produce an image now with the default Octane_raster to the path set on the Output tab. It seems that we can now get viewport AOVs with regular raster (was that the original limitation/reason? I can't quite remember :D ...

Displacements are by far Octanes most obvious weakness. The implementation of them is terrible, and lag behind even ancient renderers like Modos. Like already stated above, vertex displacements just aren't an option for 99% of people interested in speed and efficiency.

I remember the most I ...

Can I please sanity check something with the default behaviour now in H21 with Octane 2025.

When you add an Octane node it will now automatically add a USD Render LOP to the chain, but if you hit render to disk it won't actually make a file on disk? It will also create a Husk process that won't ...

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?

C ...

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.