LOOKDEV
Solaris includes new tools for the layout, lookdev and lighting of your shots. You can then render with Karma XPU which is now faster than ever before.
SOLARIS
Solaris is built natively on USD – so you get all of its collaborative benefits while artist-friendly tools empower your creative process.
KARMA
Karma XPU now includes powerful and user-friendly new features such as light instancing and lens filters.
Solaris
Solaris is being adopted by more and more studios. Houdini 20.5 brings key improvements based on their feedback.
Stage Manager
An updated Stage Manager node makes it easier to place and manage the layout of a shot.
SOP Workflow
When you go from LOPs to SOPs , geometry from the LOP level is shown ghosted and you can access LOP level cameras.
Quick Surface Material
New Quick Surface Materials let you work with texture maps at the LOP level without diving into a Material Library.
Clones
Clones now support multiple AOVs and work with Snapshots.
Karma
Karma has been developed specifically to ingest USD, making it the ideal renderer for Solaris – providing high-end production quality rendering to artists and studios.
Karma XPU
Speed improvements and adaptive sampling in Karma XPU makes it a go-to solution for lookdev tasks.
Light Instances
Instancing of lights is now supported to allow for more efficient rendering of many light sources in a single shot.
Lens Effects
Lens effects can be assigned at the LOP level and adjusted to get the look you need.
Karma Features
Important new features added to Karma in Houdini 20.5 include the physical sky atmospherics and optimized crowd procedurals.
Physical Sky
The new Karma Sky Atmosphere LOP is a realistic volumetric planetary atmosphere system.
Crowd Procedural
The Crowd Procedural provides render-time optimization that improves memory usage and performance.
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