Professional Houdini rendering, without changing your pipeline.

Yes, and this is one of the most powerful things you can do with Drop & Render. Simulation caching is fully supported. Simply connect our HDA directly to your caching nodes, File Cache, Alembic Export, Redshift Proxy, or others, and submit in a single click.

You can submit up to 100 caching tasks simultaneously in one submission, and our system handles the dependency order automatically. If your pipeline requires a simulation to finish before rendering starts, just chain your nodes accordingly and we'll respect that order exactly.

Once caching completes, output files are placed directly in the path you've defined in your Houdini nodes. No manual file management, no downloads required. It's as seamless as running it locally, just dramatically faster.

Yes. Drop & Render supports submissions from any Houdini network context:

• SOP networks: Ideal for geometry processing and simulation caching tasks.

• ROP networks: Perfect for rendering with Redshift, Karma, Mantra, or Octane.

• LOP networks (Solaris): Fully optimised for USD-based workflows and rendering with Husk.

Just connect our Drop & Render HDA to your chosen node and submit with a single click. The HDA adapts to your graph, whether you're running a straightforward render, a multi-step simulation pipeline, or a complex PDG network, and fits into the workflow you already have without requiring any restructuring.

With Drop & Render, the entire process happens directly inside Houdini. No complex exports, no manual path remapping, no leaving the application. We're an official SideFX partner, and our custom HDA lives right inside your Houdini graph. You connect it to your render or cache nodes, hit submit, and your job is sent to the cloud instantly.

Our system recreates your exact Houdini setup on the farm, the right version, the right plugins, the right render engine, and distributes your frames across many machines working simultaneously. Outputs land directly on your workstation in the exact folder path defined in your ROPs, just like rendering locally.

You can track everything in real time via the Cloud Manager, the web dashboard, or our iOS and Android app, from anywhere, without needing to be at your workstation.

It's more affordable than most people expect, and you can try it risk-free. Every new account starts with 25 euros in free credits, which is enough to render a real project and see exactly how it works before committing to anything.

Pricing is based on your render engine's benchmark score (Cinebench for CPU rendering, OctaneBench for GPU rendering). The more powerful our hardware is relative to yours, the faster your renders complete, and you only pay for the actual render time used.

To get a quick estimate for your specific project, use our pricing calculator at https://dropandrender.com/pricing. Enter your frame count, your per-frame render time, and your render engine, and you'll get a realistic cost breakdown instantly.

For even more accuracy: submit a single test frame to the farm first, then multiply that result by your total frame count. That gives you the most reliable estimate before you commit your full job.

We support all major Houdini render engines, and every version of each one: Redshift, Karma (both XPU and CPU), Octane, and Mantra.

Our system automatically detects the exact render engine and version you're running locally and matches it precisely on the farm. Whether you're on an older Redshift build or the latest Karma release, you'll get a pixel-perfect match with your local renders every time.

No manual configuration needed. No version conflicts. Just connect your nodes and submit.