This new release of RenderMan for Houdini 23 (RfH), includes a number of new features and bug fixes that address feedback.
RfH 23 is only available for Houdini versions 17.0 and higher. We no longer support Houdini 16.5. |
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"The Unsullied" by Dylan Sisson, rendered in RenderMan for Houdini
For those using the 18.0 (beta) of Houdini, the key feature is the new support for the RenderMan delegate in Solaris. In addition to the RenderMan Hydra delegate support with v23, RenderMan for Houdini offers additional interactive display options, batch rendering options, RenderMan specific geometry settings, and additional advanced settings for light sources.
The 23 RenderMan Hydra Delegate for Solaris will not immediately be available with the supported version of Houdini 18.0.268. Solaris support will come soon in a later daily version of 18.0 and we will update our supported version of RenderMan For Houdini 18.0 to match that daily build when the 23.0 Hydra delegate becomes available in this future version of Houdini 18.0 |
You can render through even more stages of your pipeline. RenderMan options on the ROP that previously required a render restart to take affect are now interactive. These options include resolution, pixel variance, screen window, min and max samples, and new interactive refinement. In addition you can add, remove, and edit AOVs live.
Schedule rendering tasks with the new RenderMan TOP nodes - Texture Maker (txmake), Generate RIB (generaterib), Render RIB (renderrib), ROP RenderMan Render (ropris), RenderMan Denoise (risdenoise) - or render with a ROP Fetch node.
Set environment variable RFH_ARGS2HDA=1 to create houdini digital assets on start up based on .args or .oso files found in RMAN_SHADERPATH and/or RMAN_RIXPLUGINPATH. Don't want to convert shaders every houdini startup? You can also use the args2hda.py script elsewhere in your pipeline. We have also improved the args2hda.py script to handle more complex shader metadata.
A bug that prevented the use of DWAa and DWAb EXR compressions has been addressed.