Exporting these files happens a lot faster than rendering all the frames in Houdini, which means the Houdini license is used for a much shorter period of time. The first job is a Houdini job, which exports your Houdini scene into a Redshift scene description file (.rs). If this setting is enabled (default) then Prism will submit a group of 3 jobs to Deadline, which are frame dependent on each other. This job will render with Redshift inside Houdini, which means it consumes one Redshift and one Houdini license while the job is running. If this setting is disabled Prism will submit one job to Deadline as before. New setting in the ImageRender state settings rs files” in the job submission group when a Redshift ROP is connected to the State.

In the settings of an ImageRender state in Houdini there is a new setting called “Render.

This is cutting down your license costs and it’s the standard rendering workflow in most bigger studios. Instead of a normal Houdini renderjob Prism can now export jobs to Deadline, which will be rendered by Redshift standalone. This update adds an important features for Houdini users, which are rendering with Redshift on Deadline. you can create After Effects preset scenes now) preset scenes are not limited to supported application formats any more (e.g.added cleanup job for Houdini 3Delight Deadline submissions when using.added option to render Redshift scene description files on Deadline for jobs submitted from Houdini.

Redshift team render