Solace — Hydra Renderer

Real-time path tracing for USD. Engineered for industrial scale.

Solace in usdview

usdview

Native Hydra integration. Select Solace as the active renderer from the command line or the viewport menu.

$ usdview scene.usd --renderer Solace

Solace in Blender

Blender

USD Hydra render delegate for Blender. Enable Solace in the render engine dropdown to path trace directly in the viewport.

Solace in Maya

Maya

Hydra viewport integration for Autodesk Maya. Switch the viewport renderer to Solace for interactive path tracing of USD stages.

Geometry

Mesh UsdGeomMesh
Subdivision subdivisionScheme
Cube UsdGeomCube
Sphere UsdGeomSphere
Cone UsdGeomCone
Cylinder UsdGeomCylinder
Capsule UsdGeomCapsule
Point cloud UsdGeomPoints
Geom subset UsdGeomSubset
Display color primvars:displayColor

Instancing

Point instancer UsdGeomPointInstancer
Native instancing instanceable

Materials

Preview surface UsdPreviewSurface
MaterialX
MDL

Textures

UV coordinates primvars:st
UDIM tiling UsdUVTexture

Lighting

Sphere light UsdLuxSphereLight
Rect light UsdLuxRectLight
Disk light UsdLuxDiskLight
Cylinder light UsdLuxCylinderLight
Distant light UsdLuxDistantLight
Dome light UsdLuxDomeLight

Rendering

Camera UsdGeomCamera
AOV color, primId, depth, neye, instanceId
Animation timeSamples
Variant UsdVariantSet
Purpose render, proxy, guide
Visibility UsdGeomImageable
Shading modes HdRenderDelegate
Volumes UsdVolVolume
Curves UsdGeomBasisCurves
Skinning UsdSkel

Getting Started

Installation
Requirements
Quick Start

Materials

Clearcoat
Opacity
Roughness

Samples

USD Viewer
Benchmark App

Installation

Solace ships as a Hydra render delegate plugin. Drop it into your USD plugin path and register.

1. Set the environment

set PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME=C:\path\to\solace\

2. Verify registration

from pxr import Plug
Plug.Registry().GetAllPlugins()

You should see Solace listed among the available Hydra render delegates.

3. Select renderer

renderIndex = HdRenderIndex.New(HdSolaceRendererPlugin(), [])
# or via usdview: --renderer Solace

Renderer ID: Solace