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Greetings to all, I am planning to install Windows 11 on my computer, but I have a problem with Windows Update. I cannot check whether any updates are available on my PC. As the windows update window appears blank. Could anyone suggest what the problem could be?
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Hi, I have a laptop which does not have a videocard like a GeForce but Intel HD graphics. I have not used houdini for about a month but just today Dec 20th launched Houdini, then found UI is broken. Usually OpenGL/directX's viewport is broken as a common problem, but this time all icons and network view are broken. I checked video driver which looks use year 2019, but I am assuming Windows 10's auto-update breaks Houdini because houdini 17 and 18 are both broken at the same time. Possibly I need to re-install Houdini. I've never seen this type of UI broken, so I wonder if anybody had same situation before, and know how to fix, please let me know. Thank you
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Hello Evryone, Context: I am currently building a VFX pipeline based on "Rez" system for dynamic environnement resolution on Windows 10. My question is about the job submition on hqueue. Evrything work fine, except when my job is calculating, houdini can not find my textures or writing any bgeo on server, due to the windows server letter mapping. log error exemple: *** OCTANE API MSG: Could not load 'Q:\RESSOURCES\TEXTURES\EnvMap\substance\sequence\substanceHDR.011.exr:rgba'. if I change the map path to a UNC path, evrything work fine like this: '\\***.***.*.*\tutu\RESSOURCES\TEXTURES\EnvMap\substance\sequence\ where "\\***.***.*.*\tutu\" = "Q:" Work around: To fix this issue it looks like I have 2 solutions : Making a script who switch the windows letter path to a UNC path before sending the job -> brute force and not a very elegant way Using the default hqueue hda's and adding my custom variables -> look more natural way to me but I have no idea how it's work, i try to add a PYTHONPATH env, nothing changes, I try to changes the HQCOMMANDS, nothing changed ... Questions: Does anyone have experencing custom environement in hqueue or custom batch command using the default rop nodes, 'simulation' and 'render'? If somebody have any idea to fix the fact that hqueue can't read a path using letters (the hqserver.ini is configurated well I think) Thanks for you time. I really hope you have a solution, except to switch to linux :-) Best Regards Mathieu Rez: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez
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Hello, I need to change keyboard + mouse in Houdini on Linux Kubuntu, is this how to make changes? I have uploaded two sample videos here so you know how to fix Linux Kubuntu?
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I cant start houdini apprentice - licence server shows that everything is ok, but after starting app a see only splash screen and nothing after that. No messages, no crashlogs, it just closing. I make clean install of last version of houdini, but nothing changes. Since last time when i runs houdini i don't made any system changes and other stuff, just regular work. I use windows 10, and i don't know what happens with this software, and a need help.
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Hi, maybe anyone knows an easy solution for this. I usually use the sleep mode for my machine if I do not use it for some time. Unfortunately it goes to sleep mode even if a hbatch process is running on all cores. I now turned the sleep mode off, but does anyone know a simple solution for this problem? For Windows7 I once used a standalone tool where you can select a process and it keeps Windows awake as long as this process is running. Is this still necessary? Or are there any Windows10 built in options? I even do not understand why it goes to sleep at all if it is working.
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Hi, I'm using Gigabyte z370m d3h, running with intel i7 8700k and RTX 2070 ... can I use linux latest version on my desktop, I didn't find any proper answer in Google for this question... Please let me known if any one is using and wanted to known if any Cons they are facing.... Thank You,
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Hello! Today I updated to VS2019 with v141 toolchain. Everything compiles and loads properly. When I build debug version and then attach debugger to Houdini, nothing happens. All breakpoints and crashes etc. are not picked up. I also reverted to VS2017, also with v141, and still the same result. As a test I took SOP_Star example from toolkit and used CMake that comes with it, and it also ignores all breakpoints/crashes when compiled in debug mode. Any ideas what can be a problem?
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Houdini on Linux can be downloaded as a .tar.gz file. When you extract that archive, it expands several more .tar.gz files which you can manually extract to wherever you want or you run the `houdini.install` file that Houdini-Linux comes with and Houdini builds to the /opt folder. These options make it really easy to put Houdini anywhere you need to on-disk. How do you install Houdini on Windows to a custom directory (like you can on Linux)? As far as I can see, The .exe file that Houdini-for-Windows ships with takes no optional arguments so you can't specify an install directory upfront. I have a couple (hacky) ideas of how this could be done but I would like to hear if anyone has experience with this and would share any insights gained. Ideally, I'm looking for a solution that is fully automated (requiring no manual user input) for the command-line if at all possible. -
Hi! We're using Linux at work and when using floating windows they aren't "attached". I have my scene/context view on one monitor and the network view on my second monitor. When I use programs like Nuke with a similar setup they still act like the same program, so if I alt tab to nuke both windows show up. When I alt tab to Houdini I have to alt tab to both the network view floating window and the general Houdini window. This becomes very frustrating when having multiple Houdini instances open as it's very easy to lose track of which floating window is attached to which Houdini instance. Any tips on this? I suppose I could create a desktop which spans over two monitors but that makes the time line and a few other things a bit hard to use. Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys, We're currently running H15 over here, but have manged to convince the powers-that-be to let us do some work with H16. What's the most stable build people are using on a Windows 7 Pipeline? Thoughts appreciated.
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After downloading and installing Renderman to its default location, the simplest solution is to put following lines into your Houdini.env as well the Rmantree as a seperate entry in your System variables and appending the path with the @Rmantree. But! in the path variables of your System use $ instead of @. Forward slashes are valid for all three targets. RMANTREE="C:/Program Files/Pixar/RenderManProServer-21.2" Path=$PATH;@RMANTREE/bin Thats it. Cheers
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Hi everyone, I'm facing a weird problem with HQueue. I have 3 client machines, firewall disable on all of them, they have all the necessary authorizations and access, the file I want to render can be open on each of them with the exact same path (and I've tried to open it on each of them, it works perfectly) but... when I submit the job to HQueue, it fails on all machines with this message : "......................... return function(**kwargs) File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 15.0.244.16\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 1489, in simulateSlice controls_dop = _loadHipFileAndGetNode(hip_file, controls_node) File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 15.0.244.16\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 331, in _loadHipFileAndGetNode _loadHipFile(hip_file, error_logger) File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 15.0.244.16\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 362, in _loadHipFile hou.hipFile.load(hip_file) File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.16/houdini/python2.7libs\houpythonportion.py", line 518, in decorator return func(*args, **kwargs) File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.16/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py", line 22697, in load return _hou.hipFile_load(*args, **kwargs) hou.OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed. Unable to open file: X:/3d_Projects/MyProject/Houdini/Beach_4.hip" My file is in an other shared folder than the specific one for HQueue, but I even try to submit it from the HQueue shared folder and it doesn't work either. Does anyone have a clue what is going on ? I am stuck...
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Hi, I got myself an old HP Proliant DL380 G7, with dual X5650s, 48GB Ram (Soon to be 96GB) and a bunch of SAS drives, which I am planning to use for rendering next to my WS. My question is, how would I most efficiently use it for rendering if I decide to install Linux on it, while running Windows on my WS? Currently I have all my projects and files on dropbox, but I am considering moving it all to a NAS in my network so that they can both run from that. How would you guys setup that kind of rendering? Does Hqueue support that right out of the box, or would something like Qube! be better? Cheers, Jonas
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Does anyone have experience with getting stuck at splash screen after updating some drivers etc. on your machine? I had Houdini perfectly working earlier but started to play around with my OSVR HDK which obviously requires to install some drivers, actually loads of them. OSVR works but now trying to launch Houdini it just gets stuck at splash screen, Nuke started to do the same thing also. Things I tried already: - Upgrading and downgrading Nvidia drivers - Same for Houdini version - Deleted the prefs for Houdini. I suppose I need to uninstall OSVR drivers and programs one by one from Control Panel, but if anyone has ideas what could be blocking Houdini from starting it would be greatly appreciated!!
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I tried following the sesi documenation on hqsetup.But unable to get it working. Could anyone direct how to make this work ? I am able to see the client but render is coming out failed ERROR: Cannot open file W:/3D_project/0038_HoudiniProjects/HQTEST/HqTest1.hip This drive is on the server. client is using the windows login username and password to run the service. What am i doing wrong ? # The shared network. hqserver.sharedNetwork.host = localhost hqserver.sharedNetwork.path.linux = %(here)s/shared hqserver.sharedNetwork.path.windows = \\render-04\hq hqserver.sharedNetwork.path.macosx = %(here)s/HQShared hqserver.sharedNetwork.mount.linux = /mnt/hq hqserver.sharedNetwork.mount.windows = H: hqserver.sharedNetwork.mount.macosx = /Volumes/HQShared # Server port number. hqserver.port = 5000 # Where to save job output job_logs_dir = %(here)s/job_logs # Specify the database for SQLAlchemy to use sqlalchemy.default.url = sqlite:///%(here)s/db/hqserver.db # This is required if using mysql sqlalchemy.default.pool_recycle = 3600 # This will force a thread to reuse connections. sqlalchemy.default.strategy = threadlocal
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Im currently using a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) and running El Capitan, and its a well known issue but the viewport performance in Houdini is extremely slow... I got so frustrated I took what might have been an extreme action and bought windows 10 and installed bootcamp to see if it would run any quicker on there.. (is that possible?). After spending a few hours installing windows/bootcamp drivers etc. I finally got round to installing Houdini on windows and now that doesnt even work! I get an error saying: "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable" Does anyone know why i'm getting this error or if theres a fix for this? I tried Houdini 14 and 15 (64-bit) and Houdini 13 (32-bit) but all gave the same error....
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Hi guys, I am a beginner with Houdini and I have a strange problem. Yesterday night, I ran a simulation on my Mac (twice) and everything went fine. Today, I tried to run the same simulation on a PC (windows 7 and the same amount of ram) and Houdini slowly ate all the ram and crashed the app. Any ideas? There are some parameters to change/optimize? Thank you for your help. best regards, Lazza79 -
Hi. With Visual Studio 2015 released with Python Tools... did anyone succeeded to setup Hython Environment for Python development so it would display more than one level deep of help? With this setup I get standard one "." level deep help: Thanks!
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I'm trying to compile the Field3D plugin on windows in order to transfer smoke from Houdini to Fume. This is the command that I'm currently running from the field3d directory where f3dtools.C file is located: hcustom f3dtools.C -i c:/ie/ark/programs/houdini/houdini13.0/dso -L "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Lib/x64/" -L "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Lib/" When compiled with no change to the code, the compiler complains about error C2664: 'void GU_Detail::sortPrimitiveList(GU_AxisType)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'fpreal32 *' to 'GU_AxisType' If I comment out this line, then the compiler gives a classic fatal error LNK1120: 25 unresolved externals. It seems like almost all of these errors are LNK2019: unresolved external symbol in the f3dtools object file, followed by a string beginning with: "__declspec(dllimport) public: class std::basic_string . . . . . ." Is there a precompiled version of this plugin somewhere? I'm surprised it's not just included by default, without it there's no way to get smoke out of Houdini which is a big barrier to adoption. Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Hello everybody, i am currently in the process of trying to generate a Visual Studio project that successfully builds Houdini plugins and later on create a cmake file to regenerate it. I looked at all tutorials i could find but am now stuck on a strange issue. Problem: The compilation process inside VS simply stops during the object creation stage for SOP_Star.C at this point: ................ 1>..\..\source\SOP_Star.C(213): warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'double' to 'float', possible loss of data 1>..\..\source\SOP_Star.C(229): warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'fpreal' to 'float', possible loss of data ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== No errors of any kind, just lots of warnings (which is more or less normal, right!?). Setup: OS: Win7x64 Houdini: 13.0.260 built with VC11 Test Plugin: SOP_Star.C IDE: VS2013 with platform toolset set to VC110 (VS2012 which my H13 is built against) Command Line options: I was messing with this all day. Basically i just copied and/or corrected the settings i determined by running hcustom -c SOP_Star.C and hcustom -m SOP_Star.C into the Command Line options of Visual Studio. hcustom -e SOP_Star.C successfully builds the project. It also shows that it runs hcompile which then start the VS compiler with an additional cmd line option called -DUT_DSO_TAGINFO that hcustom -c doesnt show!? CL command line options: All options (grey field in Visual Studio/Properties/C/C++/CommandLine): /GS /GL /W3 /Gy /Zc:wchar_t /Zi /Gm- /O2 /sdl /Fd"x64\Release\vc110.pdb" /fp:precise /D "WIN32" /D "NDEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_USRDLL" /D "SOP_STAR_EXPORTS" /D "_WINDLL" /D "_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /errorReport:prompt /WX- /Zc:forScope /Gd /Oi /MD /Fa"x64\Release\" /EHsc /nologo /Fo"x64\Release\" /Fp"x64\Release\sop_star.pch" Additional options (white field in Visual Studio/Properties/C/C++/CommandLine)....taken from hcustom -c: -nologo -TP -Zc:forScope -DVERSION="13.0.260" -DI386 -DWIN32 -DSWAP_BITFIELDS -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0501 -DWINVER=0x0501 -DNOMINMAX -DSTRICT -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_USE_MATH_DEFINES -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB -DSESI_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DAMD64 -DSIZEOF_VOID_P=8 -DFBX_ENABLED=1 -DOPENCL_ENABLED=1 -DOPENVDB_ENABLED=1 -I . -I "D:/tools/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.260/toolkit/include" -I "C:/PROGRA~2/MICROS~3.0/VC/include" -I "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.0/Include/um" -I "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.0/Include/shared" -wd4355 -w14996 -O2 -DNDEBUG -MD -EHsc -GR -bigobj Anybody any ideas? Has anybody built plugins with VC11 from a Visual Studio Project successfully? Or does anybody even have a cmake file ready to generate VS2012 projects that successfully compile? Thanks in advance! Timm
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Running Win 7 Professional x64. Houdini latest version 12.5.533. I've been rendering this simulation for some time now. Anyway, what I noticed is that Windows has allocated around 14GB (stays around there) to the Cached Memory. Now from what I've been told, this is standby memory and should be allocated to a program if it needs it. In my render settings, I set the max cache ratio to 0.9 so shouldn't it all be allocated to the houdini render? My CPU is maxing out the whole time but the RAM keeps floating around 14GB. My actual simulation (rop_geo) was around 6GB so even if I take that into account I should still have 8 GB left. I even closed almost everything down and still didn't see much change? I tried stopping my render, going to the Houdini Cache Manager and clearing it up but still had at least 13GB or so of cached physical mem. I'm not sure if it's Maya but even it's cache wouldn't even come close to 2GB when it's not open right? I cleared the After Effects cache files as well. Other than that, I only really run Nuke and I know it doesn't take up that much. http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/A_A_M_I_R/houdini_cache.jpg Any ideas?
