Digital Asset HDK

[luke046]

Hey guys,

Is it possible to build a digital asset from a HDK created SOP? The SOP(a fluid solver) is created and compiled on Linux OS. I would like to get this to work for my mac for a presentation. Now when I export the DA works of course on the same computer. But not on another computer/OS.. Can this be done without compiling on the mac for example. Can anyone help me out here?

cheers

Edited March 18, 2011 by luke046

[graham]

It's not possible. A digital asset is basically a container of nodes but in order for it to function properly Houdini needs to have access to all the nodes inside it. Other digital assets can be stored in the same file and used in the asset, but compiled operators need to be compiled for that machine type and available to that machine. If you had another machine of the same type and operating system it's not really an issue to copy the compiled operator to that machine, but on another OS you definitely have to compile for that specific OS.

Edited March 18, 2011 by graham

[luke046]

It's not possible. A digital asset is basically a container of nodes but in order for it to function properly Houdini needs to have access to all the nodes inside it. Other digital assets can be stored in the same file and used in the asset, but compiled operators need to be compiled for that machine type and available to that machine. If you had another machine of the same type and operating system it's not really an issue to copy the compiled operator to that machine, but on another OS you definitely have to compile for that specific OS.

ah, thanks for your reply and explanation.

well if I just can get the compiler to work for os x ill be happy

cheers