The world's fastest unbiased GPU rendering engine on CUDA and Metal now integrates completely with Houdini 19.5, Houdini 20.0 &Houdini 20.5 Solaris.
OctaneSolaris builds supported by this release: 19.5.805, 20.0.751, 20.5.332, 20.5.370 and 20.5.410.
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;$PATH"
Setting this environment variable outputs any error related to loading the OctaneRender® plugin on the command line for diagnosing installation problems:
HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2
-Houdnin Packages/json installation steps-
- Please create a folder inside Documents\houdini19.5 and name it as Packages
- Open notepad or any text editor and use these lines
Code: Select all
{
"enable": true,
"env": [
{
"OCTANE_AUTOSPAREPARAMS": {
"value": 1
}
},
{
"OCTVERSION": "PATH_TO_OCTANE_SOLARIS_Win64 FOLDER"
},
{
"HOUDINI_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION"
},
"PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION\\bin"
},
"PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION\\dso\\usd_plugins"
}
}
]
}
- Please make sure to disable the .env paths
- Please run **MakePackage_Solaris.bat** for automatic Package installer for Windows OS.
New features
To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 2024.1 and the Render Node app, please check out the 2024.1 release post
- Change log since last release
- - OctaneRender 2024.1 for Houdini production (2024.1.0.2) viewtopic.php?f=102&t=84253. We plan to release the unified 2024.1.2.0 asap.
- - Fixed the uninitialized variable issue
- - Fixed Directional light
- - Fixed Motion Blur
- - Fixed husk creating multiple tasks
- - The Override Output in the USD RenderROP now works for final renders and overrides the setting in the Octane node's Output section.
Note: Click the link below to refer to Important SOP to USD attribute conversion
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini18.5 ... mport.html
Important notes:
[*] The minimum NVIDIA driver version required is 522.
[*] The GPU version of Open Image Denoise is supported on CUDA compute model 7 (Volta) and later. The CPU version is used on machines with older models, and on macOS.
[*] The minimum version of macOS required is 14.5.[/b]
Linux Note
On Linux only default Houdini builds are supported.
This means that for Houdini 20.0 and 20.5, gcc11.2 builds are supported, and for Houdini 19.5, gcc9.3 build is supported.
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