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Dear Octane community,

OTOY® is proud to announce the availability of the new DCC plugin OctaneRender Hydra | Omniverse plugin v2023.1.2 Stable - RC5 for NVIDIA Omniverse 22.11.
The world's fastest unbiased GPU rendering engine on CUDA now integrates completely with Omniverse.

What is Octane Hydra | Omniverse?
The Octane Hydra | Omniverse 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.

!!! THIS IS THE RC VERSION OF OctaneRenderHydra Omniverse PLUGIN, IT IS RELEASED FOR INITIAL PREVIEW AND BUG HUNTING ONLY !!!








Pixar's USD pipeline
https://renderman.pixar.com/stories/pixars-usd-pipeline


-Installation steps-


- Change log -

• -Compiled with OctaneRender Studio+ 2023.1.2 Stable engine

-Known Issues-
- The build sometimes may not work if there is Python preinstalled!
- Omniverse app specifically recommends using Nvidia driver 471.41.


These builds are compatible with both Omniverse Create and Code!!


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Happy GPU Rendering !!

Your team
OTOY

So this is great and all but is there a version that's been released that can be used with standalone USDview? I understand the process of building the hydra delegates is heavily dependent on what you're building against so I would ask that a version be built against the current release on the Nvidia website for usdview, specifically 24.08, and python 3.10.14 if possible so people without an Omniverse subscription or access to Houdini and Solaris could try it out as well. Is that something the Octane team could do, if not support and just provide as is?