Hey All,

I haven't been able to find any good tutorials on how to render hair/fur in Octane. I use the Houdini plugin and am on MacOS. I would really appreciate some pointers.

Thanks so much!

Greg

Yeah, I think the issue is that most of a lights contribution goes into the "shadow" ray.
I'm not entirely sure why this is the case, but it seems this is how light rays function...
I will investigate this a bit more though.
In the meantime though you can control some of these things in the ...

Hi,
I randomly get the error pop-up (screenshot attached) that says: 'Error: Rendering failure. Octane can't render the scene. Check the available GPU memory or the scene complexity'

I'm on MacOS, Sequoia 15.6.1, Houdini 21.0.440, Octane 2025.3.0.0. My system is a Mac Studio M3 Ultra 32/80 with ...

Hey there!
If you want to use rayswitch on your light you need to use the octane universal light!
That's the only one that has it built in.


I tinkered a bit and found that if I set really high values for a particular ray, I can see an increase in that ray's contribution. But setting to zero ...

Hi All,
I'm relatively new to Octane (redshift refugee). I work with Houdini 21, MacOS, Apple Silicon.

I just started porting a scene from Redshift to Octane. It's a pretty simple object (A Japanese Torii Gate). I have one material with 10 UDIMs, so about 50 texture files. When I start an IPR ...

Hey there!
If you want to use rayswitch on your light you need to use the octane universal light!
That's the only one that has it built in.


I must be missing something then. I'm using a Universal light and am changing the sliders on the parameter page in the image below. The only slider that ...

dom_otoy wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 3:03 am
Hey there!
We will be doing a release by the end of this week or early next week the latest.
Just wrapping up a few small things!

Will this release also include a version for MacOS, M-Series Systems (Apple Silicon).

Thanks,
Greg

I'm trying to isolate caustics for a couple glass orbs into a single light and use another light for scene lighting as well as specular highlights on the glass. It seems this is possible in the C4D plugin as I am following a SilverwingVFX video. But, in the parameter pane for one of the lights ...

Hi all,
I'm new to Octane, formerly Redshift, and was wondering when we might expect support for the new Houdini release, today, 21.0.440 for MacOS and Apple Silicon?

I know an exact date is likely not available but in general are we talking days, weeks, months, for support?

Thanks,
Greg

Will there be a 2025.3 plugin for Houdini on MacOS on an M3 Ultra system?
Thanks, Greg