Solaris Limitations

Known Limitations

Lighting

• Light filters are currently not supported

• Mesh lights currently do not function as expected

• Light filter linking is not available

• PxrEnvDayLight and PxrAovLight are not supported

• Custom light plugins are not supported 

• Portal lights are not supported

• We do not support the light handle operation to match the normal or shading attributes of a surface

Interactive Rendering

• Crop Windows are not available.  Crop Windows do work with 24.2 and later within Houdini 19.

• Bucket Order and Bucket Origin options do not work as expected

• Interactive denoising is not available

• PxrMaterial Builder nodes to not work as expected

• A small group of options within the RenderSettings node do not apply to interactive renders.  For example, maximum thread count.

Batch Rendering

• Baking illumination not supported

Geometry

• NURBS and Implicits not supported

• Nested Instances are pre-expanded

Shading

• /wiki/spaces/REN20/pages/21561427 must be run manually on textures

• The dynamic array node is not expected to work in Solaris for the initial release

Expansion and plugins

• Only the built-in Integrators are supported

• Only the built-in Projection plugins are supported