OctaneRender 2026.1.Alpha 3 for Houdini Alpha (2026.1.Alpha_3.2)

This is a alpha release of the OctaneRender™ 2026.1.Alpha_3.2 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2026.1.Alpha 3 core. This 2026.1.Alpha_3.2 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux ...

OctaneRender 2025.3.0 for Houdini production (2025.3.0.0)

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2025.3.0.0 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2025.3.0 core. This 2025.3.0.0 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux, and macOS arm64 ...

Not sure if it's just me but there seems to be an issue with the way the Add texture tool is implemented in the PC version of Octane (2025 and 2026) that isn't properly adding textures. It works as expected on Mac using 2025, but I get different results on PC.
I'm adding these red and green ...

hazooka wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 7:23 am Still nothing? redshift released an update already... at least an alpha version please !

Sorry for the delay, hazooka. We are still working hard on the release, hopefully, the first build for H21 will be published late this week or early next week.

Terryvfx wrote: Fri Aug 22, 2025 2:09 am Amazing update! Thanks.

PD: Do we have COPs support now?

Hi Terryvfx,
I remember Houdini plugin supports node (e.g. Texture Image RGB node) file parameters starting with "op:", and build the texture from the op file path.

Unfortunately I always get - ERROR: Rendering failure. Octane can't render the scene. Check the available GPU memory or the scene complexity.
This is on a scene with just a cube and a camera. Karma is able to render with the GPU, as is Octane Blender, so for now I am reduced to playing with octane ...

I haven't tried this build yet, but was the octane lights (not universal lights) crashing octane issue was addressed?
And yeah turning the flags off for lights doesn't seem to trigger the IPR!


Sorry, lavrenovlad. We haven't reproduced the octane lights crashing problem yet, we will keep digging ...

marcikola wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 5:50 pm Thanks a lot for the great update!

Is it me or won't the lights get updated in the ipr when switching them off?

Thanks for reporting this problem, hopefully, this will be fixed in the next release.

For the benefit of frustrated linux users - If you are on a current Mint, or probably debian/ubuntu even if you have freeglut-dev installed you will not have a file libglut.so.3, you may have to create a symlink to the current version (in my case libglut.so.3.12.0) in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu ...

Thanks a lot for the release!
I already reported this bug via a support ticket, but will drop it here too:
Volume Motion Blur doesn't work with Standard Volume Shader.
I am waiting on this fix, it's much needed. I hope for the next build if possible :roll:



Thanks for bring this again ...