The world's fastest unbiased GPU rendering engine on CUDA and Metal now integrates completely with Houdini 19.5 & Houdini 20.0 Solaris.
What is OctaneRender for Solaris?
The OctaneRender for Solaris plugin is based on Pixar’s USD (Universal Scene Description) and Pixar’s Hydra API to empower artist workflows across look development, scene layout, lighting, and final rendering.
Pixar's USD pipeline
https://renderman.pixar.com/stories/pixars-usd-pipeline
-Installation steps-
Insert the OctaneRender® plugin folder path to the houdini.env file. Houdini®creates this file after launching it for the first time.
On Linux and macOS® systems, append a single line to enable OctaneRender®:
HOUDINI_PATH = "/path/to/octane;&"
On Windows® systems, you need to set the PATH to point to the plugin bin folder as well:
PATH = "C:/path/to/octane/bin;$PATH"
Setting this environment variable outputs any error related to loading the OctaneRender® plugin on the command line for diagnosing installation problems:
HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2
-Houdnin Packages/json installation steps-
- Please create a folder inside Documents\houdini19.5 and name it as Packages
- Open notepad or any text editor and use these lines
- Code: Select all
{
"enable" : true,
"env":
[
{
"OCTANE_AUTOSPAREPARAMS" :
{
"value": 1,
},
//location to your octane folder (example below)
"OCTVERSION": "PATH\TO\OCTANESOLARIS\Win64FOLDER",
},
{
"HOUDINI_PATH" :
{
"value": "$OCTVERSION",
},
"PATH" :
{
"value": "$OCTVERSION/bin",
},
"PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME" :
{
//if you have the Solaris version installed
"value": "$PATH\TO\OCTANESOLARIS\dso\usd_plugins",
},
}
]
}
- Then Save as OctaneSolaris.json
- Please make sure to disable the .env paths
New features
To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 2023.1.2 and the Render Node app, please check out the 2023.1.2 release post
- Change log since last release
- - Merged with latest OctaneRender for Houdini [(2023.1.2.2)]https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=83227
- - Fixed Noise AOV not able to see in Viewport render
- - Houdini's automatic headlight is now deleted when an Octane environment is being used
- - Fixed distant light intensity when area normalize is false
- - Distant light now uses Octane's built-in directional light primitive
- - Fixed region render issue caused by Autofocus. The autofocus is now disabled by default to match Karma and the Hydra camera
- - Fixed light update issue
- - Fixed Wcoordinate caused by Wparam with curves.
Note: Click the link below to refer to Important SOP to USD attribute conversion
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini18.5 ... mport.html
-Known Issues-
- Solaris rendering extra beauty AOV with Octane node and currently investigating
- Light Linker is yet to be supported as we are investigating if we could assign the Octane light IDs internally.
However, the usual Octane light linking works as expected.
- Deep AOV is yet to support!
Important: if using macOS, we strongly recommend that you update to version 13.3..
Linux Note
On Linux only compatibility Houdini 20 build is supported (gcc9.3).
It can only be installed by downloading it from the downloads page since it's not visible in the Launcher:
https://www.sidefx.com/download/daily-b ... ction=true
or direct download link: houdini-20.0.625-linux_x86_64_gcc9.3.tar.gz
We are looking into supporting the gcc11.2 build.
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Studio+ Subscription Downloads
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- Houdini 19.5.805
- Houdini 20.0.590
- Houdini 20.0.625
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macOS build Downloads for ARM64
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- Houdini 19.5.805
- Houdini 20.0.590
- Houdini 20.0.625
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Linux build Download
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- Houdini 19.5.805
- Houdini 20.0.590
- Houdini 20.0.625
Happy GPU Rendering !!
Your team
OTOY
