junyd Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi, while i am writing smoke cache on some other drive, houdini is keep writing hrs cache file on my local C: drive which is pretty small to work with. does anyone know how to change the temp folder location. I have also tried changing variable TMP location in the aliases and variables but it didnt work out. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 %> hconfig -H HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR Specifies a directory where Houdini will generate temporary files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyd Posted June 15, 2011 Author Share Posted June 15, 2011 (edited) Hi Jason Thanks for the reply. in the command line i did hconfig -h then hconfig -a to view the default file location and that was HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR (directed towards my C). then i looked for online houdini configure site to get help regarding how to set variable or to overwrite the path. it says open up houdini text file from the documents and write HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR = I:/Houdini_Cache_Temp( //your location) then save. Thanks Edited June 15, 2011 by junyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyd Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 another issue: I have cached both low and up res and then i closed houdini. so, eventually i lost all the temp hfs cache which is something i dont need. and when i restarted houdini and started rendering my scene the renderer is cooking temp hfs and rendering at the same time. i dont understand like what was the purpose to write low and up res and to load from disk when the renderer also needs to write temp files at run time. does it means that without closing houdini, we sim at the same time and render at the same time? although, i have tried disable simulation for scrubbing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyd Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanxiaozhi Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Yes，junyd.I am also very confused about the relationship between load from disk data and temporary sim,can you find your solution now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyd Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hi duanxiaozhi, no, i haven't received any reply regarding why houdini has to create temp files or to re cook temp simulation while rendering from the low and up res caches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyd Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 Hi duanxiaozhi, no, i haven't received any reply regarding why houdini has to create temp files or to re cook temp simulation while rendering from the previously created low and up res caches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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