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you finally discover you can have more than one instance of Houdini running at the same time:)

Been using Houdini for just under a year and I always assumed if I was Flipbooking or rendering a Wedge my machine was basically tied up and I couldn't use Houdini until everything was complete.

Now I can be running my OpenGl Wedge ROPs while having another instance of Houdini running to go thru tutorials.

Feel like a <suitable expletive here> for not knowing this earlier!

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On 04/11/2016 at 0:02 PM, art3mis said:

you finally discover you can have more than one instance of Houdini running at the same time:)

Been using Houdini for just under a year and I always assumed if I was Flipbooking or rendering a Wedge my machine was basically tied up and I couldn't use Houdini until everything was complete.

Now I can be running my OpenGl Wedge ROPs while having another instance of Houdini running to go thru tutorials.

Feel like a <suitable expletive here> for not knowing this earlier!

 

I am going to bring another level of novice-ness to this thread haha , but..
by this do you mean have two Houdini windows open at the same time?
Can you explain..

 

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1 hour ago, vlb6 said:

 

I am going to bring another level of novice-ness to this thread haha , but..
by this do you mean have two Houdini windows open at the same time?
Can you explain..

 

you click on the Houdini executable, you wait till it is started...

you click on the Houdini executable again, voila :P

 

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45 minutes ago, acey195 said:

you click on the Houdini executable, you wait till it is started...

you click on the Houdini executable again, voila :P

 

would this translate to a .hip file on a mac? because that doesn't work

excuse the novice-ness.

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Just now, vlb6 said:

would this translate to a .hip file on a mac? because that doesn't work

excuse the novice-ness.

hmm don't have much personal experience with mac...
I guess there must be a way to it on that platform too though...
and I do know a lot of people do use Houdini with Mac, so someone ought to know..

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20 minutes ago, michael said:

you should be able to have two (or more) instances of Houdini on a mac if you run them from the Terminal

 

when you copy a node(s) in Houdini it writes these nodes to a file in $TEMP so yes it should work on mac

Thank you!

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Hello, Erwin Santacruz recently wrote about it here:
https://houdinitricks.com/multiple-houdini-instaces/

Also quote from there:
In the Houdini docs, Side Effects says you need to set the SESI_COPY_SUFFIX environment variable to be able to copy and paste across multiple Houdini instances. However, I did not set this variable and everything seems to be working fine. A quick search didn’t even reveal whether the variable was set or not. Deprecated maybe? Not sure. If I come across more info or if you know a bit more of about this please Tweet me.

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When you have a Volume Resolution of 100, you try to quickly doubleclick to select all, replace it with 150 and then hit enter -- only to find you ended up with a resolution of 100150 and your workstation dying a horrible death before you can get an "esc" in..

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