Installed the new Houdini version 20.0.590 and can confirm that fixed the material builder. So my bad for using an outdated version! All good now.

Hello, I cant get materials working properly? What am I missing?
I can get the basic setup rendering with octane so it feels like I installed it correctly.

Is the Solaris Material Builder supposed to be empty without a shader?

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Alright!

Appreciate that you guys take your time and reply and help out!
Let me know if you make any progress regarding the problem.

Thanks for investigating!

Thank you so much for investigating!

I don't think it make sense to export the standard Houdini Octane SOPs scene as ORBX and render using Standalone since that scene is giving me correct results. However, I did export the Octane-Solaris version as ORBX and render with Standalone and the ...

Hi!

Thanks for the reply. I will try to describe my issue as detailed as possible.
I have a basic scene, and it renders correctly if I use the standard way of working. (Not solaris).

Here's a screenshot of how it looks using octane + aces.
Octane_Sops_reference.png

Now I want to get the exact ...

Hello!

I cannot get ACES working properly with Octane in Solaris. I have made a reference render with Octane that use the traditional sop workflow and I cannot get the same render result in Solaris. Changing the OCIO and Tonemapping settings on the camera in Solaris doesn't affect my scene at all ...

Yep, this is a known limitation. If an OBJ node doesn't have any valid geometry in the first frame, it is not even extracted, so later it can't be updated.

The workaround for this kind of scene is to render them in full scene reload mode. If you configure the Octane ROP node to render in full ...

galleon27 wrote: Rest position is not implemented yet. Its planned for Octane 2022.x

any update on this? has it been implemented yet?

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