The world's fastest unbiased GPU rendering engine on CUDA and Metal now integrates completely with Houdini 19.5 Solaris.
What is OctaneRender for Solaris?
The OctaneRender for Solari's 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 2022.1.2 and the Render Node app, please check out the 2022.1.2 release post
- Change log since last release[Test]-
- - Implemented Mesh Selection (Instance selection still WIP)
- - Added an option "Show Final Network Rendering" on RenderSettings>Octane>Tool tab as workaround for Render to disk
- - Fixed toon ramp
- - Fixed Houdini crashing with Instance node
- - Fixed Diffuse material requiring to reload scene
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. Prior to 13.3, there is an OS-related issue that causes a render failure consistently if you render for long periods of time.
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Studio+ Subscription Downloads
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Happy GPU Rendering !!
Your team
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