Octane Solaris plugin 2021.1.0.4 - 12-02-21 [OBSOLETE]

[BK]

Hi BK,

Thanks for the suggestion. I followed your advice step by step. Octane has been activated for the plugin, but the same issue persists within Solaris, i.e. I click on Octane to activate it as the viewport renderer and then nothing happens, while the option to use Octane disappears from the dropdown menu. Have a look at the screen recording below:

Octane_SolarisIssue.mp4

I wouldn't even say that Octane "crashes" because the normal Octane IPR still works flawlessly, even after the viewport render option has disappeared.

Any idea what's going wrong?

Hi Ferdinand13,

Thank you for the video.

Would you please let us know the Houdini version? Please use the non-python and see if it works.
Also, the .env path is the same as our main plugin, for example,

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PATH = "PATH_TO_OctaneSolaris\bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "PATH_TO_OctaneSolaris;&"

cheers

[Ferdinand13]

Hi BK,

Sure. The Houdini version is 18.5.696, which is the built that the most recent version of Octane Solaris Studio was created for, right?

In terms of the paths in the .env file, I'm using Houdini packages to load Octane (and all my other render plugins). The Octane.json file that I've created reads as follows:

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{
	"env": [ 
	{ "HOUDINI_PATH": ["C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64"] },
	{ "PATH": ["C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64/bin"] }
	]
}

[BK]

Hi BK,

Sure. The Houdini version is 18.5.696, which is the built that the most recent version of Octane Solaris Studio was created for, right?

In terms of the paths in the .env file, I'm using Houdini packages to load Octane (and all my other render plugins). The Octane.json file that I've created reads as follows:

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{
	"env": [ 
	{ "HOUDINI_PATH": ["C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64"] },
	{ "PATH": ["C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64/bin"] }
	]
}

Hi Ferdinand13,
Thank you so much for this.
Would you please try to install via .env directly while we check if our plugin supports package installation with our devs?

cheers

[Ferdinand13]

Hi BK, thanks for the suggestion. I now removed the Octane.json from the packages folder and added the path variables to Houdini's .env file as you see below.

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HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64;&"

PATH = "C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64/bin;$PATH"

Unfortunately the same error still persists.

I hope we can find a way to get this to work

[BK]

Hi BK, thanks for the suggestion. I now removed the Octane.json from the packages folder and added the path variables to Houdini's .env file as you see below.

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HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64;&"

PATH = "C:/Program Files/OTOY/OctaneSolarisStudio_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_18.5.696_Win64/bin;$PATH"

Unfortunately the same error still persists.

I hope we can find a way to get this to work

Hi Ferdinand13,

Thank you for the test.
It seems the path is using the forward slash.
Would you please try changing them with backward slash(\) and see if it works?

cheers

[Ferdinand13]

Hi BK,

I tried the Octane Solaris plugin on my custom PC now and it loads as expected there, no matter whether I'm using forward or backward slashes in the file path, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I'll have to look deeper into this, as it doesn't make sense this won't run on the Razer laptop, since everything else is the same installation-wise.

Just a little issue I picked up while playing around with Octane in Solaris: You can quickly swap between Redshift, Karma and Houdini GL, without having to worry about pausing the render process. You just switch and the new renderer starts doing its job. However, with Octane it caused Houdini to crash, if I switched to another renderer without pausing Octane first. On top of that, after having used a different renderer, upon switching back to Octane, the viewport remains empty, even though it looks like it started rendering. You have to click "Restart Render" in the dropdown menu for the viewport to refresh and show the scene again.

Just a small issue, but maybe you can look into this for the next release

[BK]

Hi BK,

I tried the Octane Solaris plugin on my custom PC now and it loads as expected there, no matter whether I'm using forward or backward slashes in the file path, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I'll have to look deeper into this, as it doesn't make sense this won't run on the Razer laptop, since everything else is the same installation-wise.

Just a little issue I picked up while playing around with Octane in Solaris: You can quickly swap between Redshift, Karma and Houdini GL, without having to worry about pausing the render process. You just switch and the new renderer starts doing its job. However, with Octane it caused Houdini to crash, if I switched to another renderer without pausing Octane first. On top of that, after having used a different renderer, upon switching back to Octane, the viewport remains empty, even though it looks like it started rendering. You have to click "Restart Render" in the dropdown menu for the viewport to refresh and show the scene again.

Just a small issue, but maybe you can look into this for the next release

Hi Ferdinand13,

Thank you so much for the feedback.
Our dev has found a bug that causes this crash and will get it fixed for the next release!

cheers