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title: "Vantage Hydra Delegate in Solaris"
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This page provides information about the Vantage integration in Houdini/Solaris as a Hydra delegate.


## **Overview**

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Chaos Vantage is offered as a Vantage Hydra delegate<sup>[1](#Notes)</sup> for Solaris. The Vantage Hydra Delegate allows you to render directly with Chaos Vantage inside the Solaris (USD) context in Houdini.

> ⚠️ You need a Vantage Hydra delegate installer to render using Vantage in Solaris. Find more information about Solaris in <u>[V-Ray for Houdini documentation](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VRAYHOUDINI/pages/113279330)</u>.


## **Rendering**

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The Vantage Hydra Delegate integrates Chaos Vantage as a Hydra render delegate in Solaris. This means it can be selected as the renderer in the Stage network the same way as V-Ray or Karma. Follow these steps:

> Macro (anchor)



## **Notes**

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1. Find more information about what Hydra delegate is [here](https://docs.nvidia.com/learn-openusd/latest/beyond-basics/hydra.html).