Ali Fatoorechi

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Since May 2022

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Karma XPU depth pass differs from CPU with motion blur Aug. 18, 2025, 10:07 a.m.

Hi,

The "Pixel Filter = minmax zmin" is correct and is expected to give the closest sample.
Please could you file a bug with the sample scene attached and we will investigage. Thanks.

Caustics in Karma ? Sept. 17, 2024, 4:19 a.m.

There is no dedicated sampler for caustics in Karma yet.

However, you may take a look at Render Geometry Settings for caustics and fake caustics options which give control
over enabling/disabling caustics, the fake caustics color and opacity:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/lop/rendergeometrysettings.html [www.sidefx.com]

Normal/bump maps and sharp shadow terminator Sept. 16, 2024, 8:06 a.m.

You may try Bump Shadow Terminator [www.sidefx.com] (a H20.5 Karma CPU(only) feature) in Render Geometry Settings to soften the hard shadow line.