OctaneRender 2022.1 for Houdini production build 2022.1.0.6

[juanjgon]

Hi,

This is a production release of the OctaneRender™ 2022.1 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 2022.1 core. This 2022.1.0.6 release is available for the latest Houdini production builds on Windows x64, Linux gcc8.5.0, and macOS.

Houdini production builds supported by this release: 18.5.759, 19.0.720, 19.5.368, 19.5.403, 19.5.435 and 19.5.493

New features
To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 2022.1, please check out the 2022.1 release post


Release 2022.1.0.6 Studio+ license
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... studio.zip

Release 2022.1.0.6 for H19.5.493 (all platforms)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... .5.493.zip

Release 2022.1.0.6 for H19.5.534 (all platforms)
https://render.otoy.com/customerdownloa ... .5.534.zip
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... 4_demo.zip

Release 2022.1.0.6 macOS Prime license for H19.5.435
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... _prime.zip

Release 2022.1.0.6 Demo version
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... 4_demo.zip
https://render.otoy.com/plugindownloads ... x_demo.zip

Standalone 2022.1 version for the network rendering nodes
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=80814


Release Notes
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RELEASE 2022.1.0.6
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* PLUGIN FEATURES AND FIXES:
- Added H19.5.435 plugin builds.
- Studio+ licensing update.
- More fixes and new features in the Octane Light HDA, including texture emission updates to render gobo effects.
- New "Use Texture" options in the RenderTarget HDA texture and camera environments tabs.

* OCTANE 2022.1 RC2/RC3/PRODUCTION NEW FEATURES:
- Improvements to the Star field texture
- Fixed a rare crash / slowdown when dealing with very small step lengths on volumes.
- Fixed volume denoiser on macOS.
- Fixed possible crash when using photon mapping.
- Fixed smooth and anisotropic flags on hair material on macOS.
- Fixed various problems when "Enable imager" is disabled for an output AOV.
- Improved GPU load for photon tracing.
- Fixed a crash when compiling some OSL shaders.
- Fixed an infinite loop that happened sometimes when compiling shaders on macOS.
- Fixed a small memory leak.
- Improved random sampling strategy for photon tracing.
- Fixed Composite material having a faceted look when it has no inputs.
- Fixed the normals used for thin wall layer shadows.
- Fixed discarded environment when using the denoiser on macOS.
- Fixed OSL compilation being very slow especially in large scenes.
- Fixed spotlight not working when camera is inside the cone, when nested dielectrics is disabled.
- Alpha image textures now default to linear sRGB, not sRGB when loaded.
- Fixed grayscale images being compressed as if they were "redscale". Please note that if you were having this problem, you may need to also clear the texture cache in preferences.
- Fix coating normal rendering incorrectly on universal materials with no transmission


Happy rendering,
Your OTOY Team

[james_conkle]

Thank you for the light improvements. I really appreciate the thoughtful updates to the plug-in. Excited to use 2022 in H!

[vurt]

Amazing! thank you for the arm64 native build! working really great on M1 Max! Hope that Solaris team will catch up as well, and waiting for the Network Rendering between Mac and Windows in 2023

[joelfreeman3d]

Noobie questions — I have read a few times that the Solaris and main Octane plugin have combined. When I install Octane for Houdini, everything looks fine for the traditional rendering, but Octane does not show up in Houdini. The Octane Solaris docs have not been helpful here. My assumption is the Octane with Solaris integration is not a part of the latest 2022.1 version, I just haven’t seen that written anywhere.

[juanjgon]

Noobie questions — I have read a few times that the Solaris and main Octane plugin have combined. When I install Octane for Houdini, everything looks fine for the traditional rendering, but Octane does not show up in Houdini. The Octane Solaris docs have not been helpful here. My assumption is the Octane with Solaris integration is not a part of the latest 2022.1 version, I just haven’t seen that written anywhere.

The combined Houdini+Solaris plugins builds are released here once available:
viewforum.php?f=141

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[galleon27]

Would it be possible to add a shortcut for picking materials in the IPR like in the old OpenGL IPR? Shift+click?

[eustachiodp]

Hello,

I really like the look of Octane and I really want this to work smoothly on my pc and therefore my projects. I have been using Redshift but I like the look of Octane better.

I'm having some issues and I don't know if I'm doing something silly but I'm having some warnings and messages every time I add a render target and I can't see the new photon tracing kernel either. I have had some crashes while I'm working but I don't know if this is related to these warnings. Please see the image attached.

I would appreciate any help with this.

Cheers!


My workstation
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor
64GB RAM
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

[galleon27]

Hello,

I really like the look of Octane and I really want this to work smoothly on my pc and therefore my projects. I have been using Redshift but I like the look of Octane better.

I'm having some issues and I don't know if I'm doing something silly but I'm having some warnings and messages every time I add a render target and I can't see the new photon tracing kernel either. I have had some crashes while I'm working but I don't know if this is related to these warnings. Please see the image attached.

I would appreciate any help with this.

Cheers!


My workstation
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor
64GB RAM
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

It seems that you are using the old render target hda that is in the shopnet context. You should be using the one in the matnet context.
Shopnet is the old way of doing things. Everything is done in matnet now

[eustachiodp]

Hello,

I really like the look of Octane and I really want this to work smoothly on my pc and therefore my projects. I have been using Redshift but I like the look of Octane better.

I'm having some issues and I don't know if I'm doing something silly but I'm having some warnings and messages every time I add a render target and I can't see the new photon tracing kernel either. I have had some crashes while I'm working but I don't know if this is related to these warnings. Please see the image attached.

I would appreciate any help with this.

Cheers!


My workstation
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor
64GB RAM
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
1 Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090

It seems that you are using the old render target hda that is in the shopnet context. You should be using the one in the matnet context.
Shopnet is the old way of doing things. Everything is done in matnet now

Thank you! I couldn't be happier. It's working really well now.
Cheers!

[juanjgon]

Post updated to add a new plugin build for H19.5.493 (all platforms)

Thanks,
-Juanjo