OctaneRender™ 3.0 for Houdini™ - production build 3.08.3.0 Tweet

[juanjgon]

Hi!

This is the latest production build of OctaneRender™ 3.0 for Houdini™ compiled with the Octane 3.08.3 core. This release is available for the Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 latest production builds on Windows x64, Linux gcc4.8 and OSX 10.11. This plugin is also compatible with Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 Indie. In this case, the plugin will have a 4k limited resolution while rendering sequences, and the scene export and cloud rendering features disabled.


Release 3.08.3.0 regular license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _Win64.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _Linux.zip
OSX build coming soon!

Release 3.08.3.0 subscription license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... n64_vr.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... nux_vr.zip
OSX build coming soon!

Release 3.08.3.0 demo version
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... 4_demo.zip
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... x_demo.zip
OSX build coming soon!

Standalone version for the network rendering nodes
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _3_win.exe
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _linux.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _macos.dmg


Documentation
New Octane 3.08 features: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=63219
Overview of OSL Shaders in Octane: https://docs.otoy.com/osl/
The plugin manual is being updated to cover most of the changes. https://docs.otoy.com/HoudiniH/HoudiniPluginManual.htm


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RELEASE 3.08.3.0
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* OCTANE FEATURES AND BUGS FIXED:
- Added support for the latest Houdini 16.5 production builds.
- Merged back the refactored render layer shadows of version 4. This way the render layer shadows behave similar to the general shadow pass. As a consequence, the colour render layer shadow pass got removed which doesn't apply anymore.
- Fixed incorrect clamping of info channel kernels at 0, causing passes like the normal passes to render incorrectly.
- Fixed missing direct reflection of the metallic material which wasn't recorded in the reflection pass.
- Fixed GGX sampling in glossy materials by using the same sampling as in the universal material of version 4.
- Fixed energy loss in specular materials during total internal reflection.
- Fixed rendering of transparent meshes inside an environment medium.
- Fixed autofocus picking when near clipping is enabled.
- Fixed missing support for Volta GPUs on OSX.
- Fixed incorrect seeding in the MLT kernel.



Thanks,
-Juanjo

[VISUAL360]

Hello,

I'm having a bit of a problem with the Octane shelf showing up (and Redshift for that matter).

Can you tell me is something is amiss with my env setup:

HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2

PATH = "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/bin;C:/Users/ME/Documents/Octane_571/bin;$PATH"

HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/16.5.571;C:/Users/ME/Documents/Octane_571;&"

Thanks

[juanjgon]

Hi,

This houdini.env file seems right, unless you have a mistake in any of quotes characters or something like that. If your problem is only related to the plugin shelf, be aware that you must add it yourself to your shelves bar using the "+" menu available in the bar, as you can see in the attached image.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[VISUAL360]

Thanks Juanjo but that's the issue...those two render shelf options do not appear to choose from.

EDIT: all good now. I was having some issues with Houdini Licenses and resolved that. Seemed to resolve the shelves showing up too.

Yay!

[mudakisa]

Hi,
With 3.08.3 I get this strange error, that appears every time when I open projects created with last version of Octane.

Houdini 16.5.496

[juanjgon]

Hi,

Don't worry, it is an only a warning message related to a deprecated render passes option, no longer available in this Octane build. Have you tried to save the scene once loaded after getting this warning? Probably it will not be shown again.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[mudakisa]

Yep, I know that this does not affect on the process. But it's annoying a little. It appears even if i create totally new project, save and then open. I guess problem on my side. But I have no idea where to start searching for a solution to the problem. That's why asking.
If you have any ideas what i can try to do for solve this, please give me advice.

[juanjgon]

Yep, I know that this does not affect on the process. But it's annoying a little. It appears even if i create totally new project, save and then open. I guess problem on my side. But I have no idea where to start searching for a solution to the problem. That's why asking.
If you have any ideas what i can try to do for solve this, please give me advice.

Hmm, does it happen even after creating new scenes from scratch? This is really weird. Perhaps you have an additional version of the render target HDA at some place. Perhaps you should clean you Houdini $HOME folder, specially the houdini16.5\config folder, to see if this helps.

Thanks,
-juanjo

[HMXMedia]

Hi,
The latest stable build is 3.08.4, would it be possible to get the plug-in for that one please?
As it's already available in Maya, and we need to keep the same version across platforms.

Thanks !

[juanjgon]

Hi,
The latest stable build is 3.08.4, would it be possible to get the plug-in for that one please?
As it's already available in Maya, and we need to keep the same version across platforms.

Thanks !

Yes, sure. I'll try to release a new plugin build with the latest 3.08.4 core ASAP.

Thanks,
-Juanjo