Rendering curve tubes (curve > sweep > skin)

[limeforce]

Hey! Tried making some curves in Houdini, extruding circles along them and rendering in Octane, but they do not show up Any tips? I'm fairly new to Houdini so probably a simple fix, just couldn't figure out why they show up in the viewport but not in an Octane render. A basic cube using the same emissive material renders just fine as you can see. Here is my scene file and some screenshots:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/300 ... nder.hiplc




Thanks in advance!

[juanjgon]

Hi,

It is easy. The problem is that you are building NURB surfaces, that must be tessellated to be rendered by Octane. You must add to the OBJ node the Octane spare parameters (you have this tool in the shelf) and enable the tessellation feature.

https://docs.otoy.com/Houdini/?page_id=714

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[limeforce]

So it was a simple fix, tried it and works as expected. Thanks! I need to spend some time with the docs.