OctaneRender™ 4.0 for Houdini™ - beta build 4.00.0.8 XB3

[juanjgon]

Hi!

This is the first beta build of the OctaneRender™ 4.0 for Houdini™ plugin compiled with the Octane 4.00 XB3 core. This release is available for the Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 latest production builds on Windows x64, Linux gcc4.8 and OSX 10.11. This plugin is also compatible with Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 Indie. In this case, the plugin will have a 4k limited resolution while rendering sequences, and the scene export and cloud rendering features disabled.

As with all experimental and test releases, please do not use this build for production work, and please note that we still classify this as an experimental release.

Important notes:
- NVIDIA Driver version 387 or higher is required on Windows and Linux, and any CUDA driver for Mac should work that supports CUDA 9.1.
- Octane no longer supports Fermi GPUs.
- We are still working through a lot of changes required to make Network Render operational. This is directly related to AI Scene and AI Light.
- AI Denoiser will not denoise volumes and hairs yet.

This plugin build has these Octane 4 features available:
- Denoiser options in the Imager node.
- Several new denoised passes in the Passes node.
- Denoiser device options in the plugin options panel, GPUs tab.
- New "Show Denoise" button in the OpenGL IPR window to swicth on/off the denoised beauty pass.
- New "Octane_IPR_showDenoise" hscript command to control the IPR denoised beauty pass show state.
- AI Lights options in the kernel nodes.
- AI Scene and Out of core geometry improvements (no new options to control these features yet).
- New option in the kernels to set the toon shading ambient light.
- Support for the "cast shadows" feature in the toon lights.
- New Nishita daylight model.
- New "Universal" material node.
- New "Planetary" environment node.

For introductory material on V4, please see the first release post of V4


Release 4.00.0.8 regular license
Houdini 15.5 Windows Houdini 16.0 Windows Houdini 16.5 Windows
Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 Linux
Houdini 16.0/16.5 OSX

Release 4.00.0.8 subscription license
Houdini 15.5 Windows Houdini 16.0 Windows Houdini 16.5 Windows
Houdini 15.5/16.0/16.5 Linux
Houdini 16.0/16.5 OSX


Enjoy it!
-Juanjo

[Techie]

Thanks Juanjo!

[ptunstall]

You are amazing as always Juanjo!!! What do you think is the ETA on linux builds?

[juanjgon]

You are amazing as always Juanjo!!! What do you think is the ETA on linux builds?

Early next week

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[fantome]

Thanks Juanjo !

So does this mean that , 3.09 and 3.1 release are discarded, and the next octane release will be directly 4.0 ?
In other words 3.08 will be the last Octane Version in the realm of 3.x ?

Cheers
E

[juanjgon]

Yes, I think that this is the roadmap. It could be an additional bugs fixing only 3.08 build, but the next Octane version will be the 4.00

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[juanjgon]

I've updated this post adding the Linux version. OSX version coming soon!

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[fantome]

Thanks for your fast feedback !

[juanjgon]

The OSX plugin build is also ready.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[MagnusL3D]

Love your work Juanjgon, one question and it's probably just me beeing confused but are plugins going to be free with v4 ? because I dont own this plugin yet..should I just get it or wait ?