Octane Sink

Useful notes, tips & tricks regarding the Octane renderer

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Attributes

Passing attributes to geo/instances

Texture Instance node renamed to "displayColor" to get instance color attribute
Vertex Color/Float attribute to get geo attributes

Source

Limitations

At the moment you can have up to 4 float attributes and 2 colour attributes
Octane will read the first 4/2 attributes (in their name alphabetical order) and will default the rest.

Source: Developers

Color management

Version Octane_2025.1.0.0_Solaris_20.5.550 does not support the Houdini's built-in config, requires cg-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1.ocio