Render Both Curves and Geometry in the Same Object?

[bollella]

I have a mesh in which I want to put some curves (working in Houdini) and, of course Octane won't render the curves unless I select 'Render as curves/fur' in the Octane parameters at the object level. Of course, checking it cause the whole object to be rendered as curves not geometry. And, yes, I can sweep some tiny tubes along the curves and render all as geometry but I'd like to avoid that as the curves will get comples (kinda hairy actually). Any options for me? I know Redshift has recently released a Redshift parameters SOP node which allows one to set at least some parameters per mesh at the SOP level. Anything similar in Octane? Or any sort of workflow to accomplish this?


Thanks, Greg

[bollella]

Duh, face-palm. Figured it out myself. Simple. Just pull the geometry out of its object into another object , create the curves there, and set the object with the curves to render as curves/fur.

Greg