SideFX Solaris Reveal | SIGGRAPH 2019

SideFX's Scott Keating showcases the upcoming SideFX Solaris at SIGGRAPH 2019. Solaris brings a new context called LOPS, or lighting operators, that brings native USD [Universal Scene Description] support to Houdini to allow for comprehensive lookdev, layout and lighting workflows.

- Geometry brought into LOPS becomes USD - USD remains USD while in LOPS.

- Solaris provides a visual editor for working with USD.

- Solaris supports a wide variety of lookdev, layout and lighting tasks.

- Solaris is a new context in Houdini Core, Houdini FX, Houdini Indie and Houdini Apprentice - not a separate application.

- A new USD-compliant renderer called SideFX Karma Render was announced for Solaris/USD

This new renderer works with Hydra for fast IPR.

This will be a fast CPU-based renderer with a GPU version of it being developed for a future release.

Solaris also works with other Hydra-compliant renderers such as RenderMan.

Solaris is planned to be released as part of Houdini 18 in late 2019. Karma Render will be released in beta at the same time.

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