This is a beta release of the OctaneRender™ 2019.1 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2019.1. RC3 core. This 2019.1.0.2 release is available for the Houdini 16.0/16.5/17.0/17.5 latest production builds on Windows x64, Linux gcc6.3.1 and OSX 10.12. This plugin is also compatible with Houdini Indie (While working inside the Indie version, the plugin will have a 4k limited resolution while rendering sequences and the scene export and cloud rendering features disabled)
To use Octane 2019.1, you need to have a Studio or Enterprise subscription license. We recommend that you upgrade your NVIDIA driver to version 419.17 or newer.
New features
To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 2019.1, please check out the 2019.1 XB1 release post and the 2019.1 XB2 release post, but this a quick list of the main new features that have been added:
- Improved volume AI Denoiser.
- OSL and procedural vertex displacement and displacement mixer, including auto-bump shading.
- OSL Shaders for volume textures.
- Layered materials, including all the new material layers nodes.
- Composite material node.
- Universal material thin wall option.
- New rounded edges, including the new round edges nodes replacing the old options available in the material nodes.
- Bloom/glare threshold.
- AI Up-sampler options in the imager node.
- Increase maximum number of alpha intersections to 200. This fixes some scenes that have a huge amount of alpha maps.
- Added the affect roughness option to kernel nodes "The percentage of roughness affecting subsequent layers' roughness"
- Spectron volumetric spotlight
Release 2019.1.0.2 Enterprise subscription license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... rprise.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... rprise.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... rprise.zip
Release 2019.1.0.2 Studio subscription license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip
Standalone 2019.1 RC3 Enterprise subscription version for the network rendering nodes
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... C3_win.exe
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _linux.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... _macos.dmg
Release Notes
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RELEASE 2019.1.0.2
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* PLUGIN FEATURES AND FIXES:
- Addressed the creation of HDAs inside the Octane vopnet nodes.
- New Spectron light type including the volumetric spotlight feature.
- Support of embedded code inside the OSL VOP nodes.
* OCTANE FEATURES AND BUGS FIXED:
- Performance improvements.
- Fixed glossy material not working with sheen layer.
- Fixed metallic layer not conserving energy in universal material.
- Fixed glossy material not fully reflective when IOR = 1 for microfacet models.
- Fixed vertex displacement crash when used with meshes that have vertex speeds.
- Fixed black denoiser pass sometimes when subsample mode is enabled.
Happy rendering,
Your OTOY Team