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, 20.0.724, 20.0.751, 20.5.278.
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
New features
To learn more about the new features and improvements of OctaneRender 2023.1.3 and the Render Node app, please check out the 2023.1.3 release post
- Change log since last release
- - Included **MakePackage_Solaris.bat** for automatic Package installer.
- - Fixed a crash when rebuilding the instance colors.
- - Fixed instance colors when multiple meshes are instanced together.
- - Updated the lights and their UI to fix the directional and toon lights.
- - Added the Force up vector vertical option for Thin lens and Universal cameras.
- - Fixed instances in Houdini 20.5.x due to changes in Hydra.
- - Unreferenced meshes, particles and volumes now have their nodes cleared so they are not left stranded in the Octane node tree.
Note: Click the link below to refer to Important SOP to USD attribute conversion
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini18.5 ... mport.html
-Known Issues-
- Deep AOV is yet to support!
Important: if using macOS, we strongly recommend that you update to version 14..
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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