The viewport in Houdini often looks great, so great in fact that I would like to render it.

Is there a proper workflow for rendering out OpenGL frames from the viewport or is it just a case of doing a flipbook with good quality settings? Is there any way of getting an alpha with the flipbook?

if i am not wrong you can use the OpenGL output rop? Just turn on Ambient Occlusion or whatever you need in the Display Option of the opengl rop.

Of course! So obvious.

Thank you very much for your help.

There are some limitations, however. The OpenGL ROP is not an exact copy of the view port. For instance Volumes are not lit which is a big let down. Also any viewport effect that is being driven from a GLSL shader is not rendered either.

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There are some limitations, however. The OpenGL ROP is not an exact copy of the view port. For instance Volumes are not lit which is a big let down. Also any viewport effect that is being driven from a GLSL shader is not rendered either.

Thanks for the extra info.