I saw the preview being out and I'm on the beta list so I've been testing with it today.

Some warning about the neural irradiance cache on the OctaneRenderSetup node and so my standard start-up file prevents Houdini from starting. Ran into these before in a previous release. When I get a second ...

Will we see a drop for H 21.0.729?
Thanks,
Greg


Hi Greg, you can use the plugin build for H21.0.700, I think H21.0.729 shares the same HDK version with H21.0.700.
BTW, 2026.3.0.1 Preview1 build has just been published to Beta users, so 2026.3.0.1 shouldn't be far away, and it will contain the ...

lavrenovlad wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 1:34 pm Ctrl+Z issue wasn't fixed, IPR doesn't react to it.

Hi Vlad, we found Ctrl+Z didn't update IPR only for node connection/disconnection, but this should have been fixed in the 2026.3.0.1 Beta release, please give it a go. Thanks

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2026.3.0.0 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2026.3 core. This 2026.3.0.0 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux.

Houdini production builds supported by this release: 20.0.896, 20.5.684, 21.0 ...

lamloops wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 11:09 pm This link works fine - viewtopic.php?t=85487

but not this one

viewtopic.php?t=85488

Sorry, laamloops, I used the wrong link in the original post. Thanks for reporting this, now it's fixed.

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2026.2.0.1 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2026.2 core. This 2026.2.0.1 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux.

Houdini production builds supported by this release: 20.0.896, 20.5.684, 21.0 ...

its the same path that I've been using for my octane package for years now, including the previous version of 2026.

its a variable thats set to a _PLUGIN folder in my Houdini prefs folder.


From 2025.1.Beta_1.0, Octane plugin for Houdini uses Houdini package file. Each build ships a script ...

on macOS Im currently getting a crash on the creation of any geo at /obj level.


08:25:21 ERROR: [OBJ parm] ---------- Cannot open parm ds file Octane_2026.2.0.0_Houdini_21.0.596_Prime_macos/scripts/DSFile/OctaneHoudini_GeoParms.ds
2705: Fatal error: Segmentation fault (sent by pid 0)

macOS ...

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2026.2.0.0 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2026.2 core. This 2026.2.0.0 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux.

Houdini production builds supported by this release: 20.0.896, 20.5.684, 21.0 ...

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2025.5.0.2 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2025.5 core. This 2025.5.0.2 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux, and macOS arm64.

Houdini production builds supported by this release: 20.0.896 ...