Octane Not Showing Up in Houdini->Settings->Rendering

[bollella]

HI all,
I just installed the latest plugin for Houdini 20.5.613 on MacOS/M3Ultra. I haven't used Octane in quite a while but thought I'd give it another try. I can render, the shelf tools show up and all seems ok **Except** Octane does not appear in the list when I go to Houdini->Settings->Rendering.

AI's given me some things to try to get it settled and indicated I have a partial installation.

I have a Studio+ Plugin subscription and installed 2025.2.1.0

Any ideas why it might not be showing up there?

Thanks,
Greg

[dom_otoy]

Hey there!
Did you install the plugin using the json/sh workflow? Or are you using the houdini.env?
Houdini.env workflow is no longer supported and won't be working correctly

[bollella]

I did use the json/sh install and have the proper .json file in .../20.5/packages. Most things seem to work, I can render. Here's the contents of the package fine:

{
"enable": true,
"env": [
{
"OCTANE_AUTOSPAREPARAMS": {
"value": 1
}
},
{
"OCTVERSION": "/Volumes/Disk00/3D Modeling/Octane/Octane_2025/Octane_2025.2.1.0_Houdini_20.5.613_Prime_macos"
},
{
"HOUDINI_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION"
},
"HOUDINI_MENU_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/config/Menus"
},
"HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/scripts"
},
"PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/bin"
},
"PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/dso/usd_plugins"
}
}
]
}

[dom_otoy]

I did use the json/sh install and have the proper .json file in .../20.5/packages. Most things seem to work, I can render. Here's the contents of the package fine:

{
"enable": true,
"env": [
{
"OCTANE_AUTOSPAREPARAMS": {
"value": 1
}
},
{
"OCTVERSION": "/Volumes/Disk00/3D Modeling/Octane/Octane_2025/Octane_2025.2.1.0_Houdini_20.5.613_Prime_macos"
},
{
"HOUDINI_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION"
},
"HOUDINI_MENU_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/config/Menus"
},
"HOUDINI_SCRIPT_PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/scripts"
},
"PATH": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/bin"
},
"PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME": {
"value": "$OCTVERSION/dso/usd_plugins"
}
}
]
}

Hope you have figured things out by now!

So Octane actually doesn't show up there. We might be able to get Octane to appear as a render engine there, but so far no one has asked about it, and I'm not sure if there actually would be any need of it appearing there
But you can safely know it's working correctly and this is just not something that Octane has setup.

I'd highly recommend joining the Octane discord! It's much easier for me to see and respond to issues quickly there!
https://discord.gg/F4WENTG