Solaris - What’s New | Rob Pieké | H20 HIVE

[@joeldeslo854]

Thanks for laying out these changes in applied scenarios.

[@jimmay8627]

20:35 No longer works out of the box in 20.5.401. I'm reproducing these exact steps and sequence of nodes (except for a sphere in lieu of the boat) and there's no waves. Ocean's flat in all delegates.
Edit: For future noobs hitting this same problem: Procedural preview node requires the ocean spectra .bgeo to be saved first from the ROP inside the ocean procedural (not made clear here if you dropped in at 19:12 or so for the ocean part ). You won't be able to bypass it with an op: either, as you'll get errors about op: not being supported in compiled File nodes.

[@HristoVelev]

Wouldn't it fit the USD paradigm better if the physical sky was an extension of the standard dome light instead of a new class?

[@kewa_design]

I guess they did this because in all the other 3D Applications it's a separate thing as well. Actually I cannot tell if it's in "ALL" but at least all I used

[@Lutojar1]

I'm curious if it possible to just use render gallery view for interactive renders (instead of viewport) somehow? Or creating a local clone in h20 is the only way to achieve this?

[@robp_sidefx]

Using a clone is (at least for now) the only way to to this