TheGeth

Thank you both for help.There is one more thing I want to fix.Dont know why but the final render is much darker in other apps like photoshop or game engine.I want to save it as I see it in the Houdini Render View.

Hello, so I simulated a few explosions using fireball preset and sphere object but when I render it the fire sphere is always there.I tried to keyframe the uniform scale of the sphere object and also the source volume activation but it didnt helped.Its ok to have it there for the first 30 frames but it looks weird after the fire is gone and there is only burning sphere with disappearing smoke at the bottom.Can somone please help me to hide it?Thanks.

Hi again, I finally got 8GB of ram but I still don´t know which distro will be better.CentOS or Ubuntu?Ubuntu is easy to setup but I need to pay for GPU drivers?

I´m doing lots of stuff on my PC (gaming, game programming in Unity,Unreal 4, simulating with other softwares,...)so I think that it isn't a HW problem.The only thing which isn't working is Houdini 14.0.291 apprentice(and every version before).The GPU driver crashed when I imported FBX scene from 3ds max and it was very big but I rescaled it and it was ok.I searched on google and I found peoples which had same issues with houdini and with linux they can do bigger sims without a problem.

Hi, I have a low-end PC for CG and I think it can make nice things.I want to learn houdini because it has everything for FX.Now I´m using 3DS max with 4 plugins (fumefx,phoenixFD,rayfire,v-ray) and it´s not good.I want to use Maya for modeling, animation and houdini for FX(water,fire,destruction,...).I´m on Windows 7 now and houdini is unusable(crashing drivers,crashing houdini,ram problems,...).I want system dedicated for my work and I heard that linux is best for houdini but I have no experience with linux system and I know only ubuntu which is not very good for Maya.My PC: Intel Core i3-2100,4GB of ram(will upgrade as soon as possible),AMD HD7750OC,1TB+320GB HDDs.I want to install linux on my second 320GB HDD.Sorry for my english.Thanks.