Render in Background? Tweet

[joenyc]

I feel dense asking this question, but is there a way to have Octane render in the background in Houdini? With Mantra and other renderers, there is a "Render to disk in background" button that sends the render to the render scheduler and allows you to continue working. With Octane, when I click "Render to Disk" it blocks me from using Houdini until the render is done, regardless of whether I'm rendering to Mplay or disk (or both).

Studio subscription, Houdini 18.0.499, Octane X PR1, Mac Pro.

[juanjgon]

Hi,

There isn't an out of the box command from the plugin to do that, but it is only a matter of using hython or hbatch to load the scene and render it. It should also be possible to build a little tool inside Houdini for this task. For example, you could take a look at this shelf tool that could even work with Octane.
https://github.com/jtomori/hou_bg_render

Thanks,
-Juanjo