The initial implementation also supports instanced geometry and variants, displacement, subdivision, light linking, and V-Ray’s physical camera, object properties and render settings.

The feature, which is still officially in beta, makes V-Ray available as a Hydra render delegate within Solaris, alongside Houdini’s native Karma renderer, Arnold, Redshift and RenderMan.Īccording to Chaos, settings for geometry, materials and lights that V-Ray provides for working with Solaris LOP nodes are “basically the same settings as those in V-Ray’s nodes”.

Now available as a Hydra render delegate within Houdini’s Solaris toolsetĪlong with V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray for Houdini becomes the first edition of the renderer to support VFX workflows based around Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD).įor the Houdini edition, that means V-Ray for Solaris: support for V-Ray within Houdini’s new USD-based shot layout, lighting and look dev toolset. You can find a full list of supported features here. The Houdini edition supports most of the key features of the host application, and of the other editions of V-Ray, bar a few exotic geometry and material types. VFX studios with V-Ray pipelines can use it preview effects or assets before exporting them to Maya or 3ds Max for rendering, ensuring visual consistency across each stage of production. V-Ray for for Houdini Update 2 adds Chaos’s new V-Ray Decal system, improves V-Ray hair material and curvature texture, and simplifies Alembic and ACEScg workflows.Ī readymade look development pipeline across Maya and Nukeįirst released in 2019, V-Ray for Houdini is intended as much for look development as final-quality rendering.

V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 1 introduced V-Ray for Solaris, making V-Ray available as a Hydra render delegate within Houdini’s USD-based layout toolset. Scroll down for news of Update 2.Ĭhaos has updated V-Ray for Houdini, the Houdini edition of the production renderer.

Originally posted on 18 June 2021 on the release of Update 1.

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