Recently, Houdini Indie offers the ability to use third party renderers. This means that you can use popular renders like Arnold and Octane render. If you are looking to get started with Houdini Octane, Master Houdini Trainer Rohan Dalvi can guide you.
the first in a series of videos on how to use Octane in Houdini.
With the first in a series of tutorial on using Houdini Octane, Rohan covers how to install Octane. He also runs through the very basic settings, needed for rendering. There are some great tips here for using Houdini Octane, and what the core render engines do, and what it means to your workflow.
Octane works with Houdini and Houdini FX 13.0, 14.0, 15.0* & 15.5 Indie, and like other versions of Octane, is very, affordable compared to some other render engines.
