Ah I see.

Is this definitely tested working as expected then? I would assume with a percentage-based setup, the default of 1.0 would mean a marching step of 1x the individual voxel width, which would generally mean that a volume would have all its camera-z-axis detail resolved consistently without ...

Hey all,
I'm a Houdini plugin user, but figured it might be better to ask about this in the general forum.

I'm trying to squeeze some heavy fluid sim data into specific GPU memory budgets, to keep things in-core and quick... so I'm trying to get a sense of at least how to ballpark-estimate vram ...

Hey all.
The exact specification of what "Volume step %" actually does seems a bit contradictory between different versions and different documentation.
(Houdini plugin 2024 Beta tooltip currently: "Ray-marching step length, specified as a percentage of the voxel size.")

From memory, I think the ...

Thanks, no need to check Standalone. It isn't that it isn't exporting more as there seems to be an issue within the Render Target sub-graph. For now you can get around it by setting the AOV count 1 higher to 26. Because the assignments shifted down, Z-Depth is effectively unassigned by sharing the ...

I think either Beta 3.0 or Beta 3.1 broke the z-depth info AOV.
(Edit: Just checked Beta 3.0, and the problem exists there too)
I've switched back and forth between 3.1 and 2.0, and z-depth outputs correctly in 2.0 (writing to exr files), but is missing in this version, while any other AOVs ...

I think either Beta 3.0 or Beta 3.1 broke the z-depth info AOV.
(Edit: Just checked Beta 3.0, and the problem exists there too)
I've switched back and forth between 3.1 and 2.0, and z-depth outputs correctly in 2.0 (writing to exr files), but is missing in this version, while any other AOVs selected ...

Huh, after much digging and a certain amount of resignation, I stumbled across it.

For anyone interested, in the Houdini context, it's the "Material Null" with a Medium of your choice plugged into it - it mentions in the docs that it's equivalent to a Material Specular with Transmission 1.0 ...

I can't recall if I've got this answered before - if I have, I can't find reference to it anywhere.

Can Octane render a mesh directly as a uniform-density medium, the way Houdini Mantra can? Or do I have to convert an enclosed mesh to a volume/VDB representation to do that?

Ideally I'd like to ...

Ah, thanks for the info Juanjo! Sounds promising. I think the way it works now is enough for my current project, but I'll certainly stay tuned for developments.

For my part, I tend to prefer doing everything by Wrangle, so I wouldn't need much of an interface - just to be able to slap an alembic ...

Hmm, actually, it doesn't seem too bad just having it reference bgeo.sc files and letting Houdini handle loading the instances, provided I just leave it as raw path strings on points, and avoid letting Houdini load them into the scene as packed disk primitives.

Would still be nice to know if there ...