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Hi all, I would much appreciate your advice with the following. I am thinking to start a Houdini course after September, and unfortunately at the moment I cannot afford to buy a new workstation. So I will be using my current laptop, ASUS TUF a15 which has: Ryzen 4800H, 16GB R...
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Hi, I Need some info. My workstation is about 6 years old. It is a Core i7 6700K. (core is just 4). But I put more memory for learning Houdini. it is now 64 GB Ram. My Graphics card is 750ti 4GB memory. I plan to buy "ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 Twin Edge OC Graphics C...
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I created a rather complex Digital Asset. It consticts of ~2000 nodes, and also there is ~60 instances of another asset inside this asset. I optimized it thought cleaning nodes throught performance monitor, and now It computes rather fast after loading, but LOADING takes nearly 10 seconds. It'...
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Hi guys! I have the chance to upgrade my workstation. But I don't completely understand what would be the best choice in my case. Still learning about hardware and houdini´s performance. I´m in the advertisement Industry, and as you know, the timetable can get pretty crazy. I´m interested in im...
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hey people! Im having a terrible problem here. Im doing a guided ocean sim, problem is im doing a 0.004 particle separation and meshing. My final mesh is around 4 mil polys and The moment I try to render it with a simple 2k spectrum I get over 50gb in ram usage. Is there a way to reduce th...
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Without the render power to render a sky for each frame, I'd like to render one cloudy dome image instead. I've managed to render a 16k dome, but only with the wimpiest of clouds. Any ideas on how to render just bits of cloud at a time? Some way to automate a single cloud around, that changes in eac... -
Hi, Whenever I run a pyro cache, that is, I import the pyro fields and attach a fileCache node and write out the cache. The simulation eats up all my RAM as soon as the caching starts and then almost freezes my system. I always check off the cache sim option in DOP node that disables saving cac...
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Hello everyone I am getting a PC built on ASRock X399 Taichi + 2950X Threadripper. confused with RAM (my requirement is 4x16 GB= 64 GB), I could use some good recommendations and advice Here is what i found out from various forums: 1. TR 2950X on an ASRock X399 Taichi can not go bey...
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32GB Ram 3200mhz ryzen 5 1600 Hi again guys. Basically I have been struggling a lot with cacheing a simulation. I´ve tried .bgeo .sim and multiple resolutions on the pyro I would hate to keep lowering the res because of ram issues. I diseabled "Cache Simulation" and I still keep...
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Hey guys, I'm having some headaches with the new rig. Worked fine for the first 3 weeks but now I'm getting random errors (I asume are memory related). I'm working with 112gb ram because 1 slot is broken, I've heard having 7 in use and not all might cause performance issues, that I b...
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Hello odforcers I'm a new user here and I would like to make couple of simple questions for advanced users, or at least I hope it's simple. So I will be investing my time into learning destruction with houdini and I know at some point I will need to do smoke simulation. Will be upgrading my pc soon....
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Hi Guys I have a fairly high res flip sim (by student standards, about 3 gig per frame) and I needed to cache it out as a .sim to utilise checkpoints I need to read this simulation in using playback simulation on the dopnet and a dop IO node with the flip presets in order to pull in th... -
I know about Cache Manager (Shift+Alt+M), but I am looking for a way to clear memory DURING cooking. Otherwise definition will crash. I tried rewriting fuse SOP in VEX, but with the same problem: int points[]=pcfind(0,"P",@P,0.0000001,200); pop(points,0); foreach(...
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Hi, I've some question about the dopNet, and the memory performance: I currently query the memory used in the simulation in this way def memConsumed(): try: sim = hou.node("../.").simulation() return "%s" %(str(hou.DopSimulation.memoryUsage(sim)*0.000001)) excep...
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Hey, I was trying to save a compressed cache of my beach simulation. Over time, my ram kept filling up untill houdini crashed (not very far in). My work stations at school have 64 gigs and I have seen vimeo/youtube videos of people getting twice my resolution with half my ram. Also, why would m...
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Hey guys, I'm gonna buy a new PC and wanted to ask here for some suggestions. My budget is u$d 3000 to $5000 max My daily apps, Octane, Cinema 4D, Zbrush, After Effects, and currently learning Houdini, wanna do some heavy particle / volume based animations. Saw a friend list on amazon... -
Is there any way how I can limit Houdini RAM and CPU usage while writing out simulations with ROP outputdriver? My system crashed few times already while writing out whitewater particles. and I had to start all over again. In Adobe software there's simple setting in preferences - how much RAM to l...
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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.... -
Hey everybody, I'm looking for a new computer and I'm now standing with a dilemma. Should I choose the Xeon 6-core 2.1ghz or a i7 with a higher clockspeed? The thing is, that if I choose to go with the Xeon, I'll choose a workstation motherboard, so that I can expand with 1 more CPU later on....
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Hi, I've seen a few topics on this subject, but none actually solved the issue in the end. So here's the problem: I'm writing out a flip mesh (vdb) to disk (using the rop output driver), and the first 1-2 frames go just fine (takes +- 3 min per frame). Of course Houdini uses a lot...
