strages Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Hey everyone, I cannot open my scene anymore. Currently using some big alembic files ( but i could open the scene in the past with those in it ). Created some animations with fracture RBD Fractured object and used cache sop here and there to speed things up. Right now the scene file is 391 kb's however i get a houdini memory allocation error. The process quickly goes to around 3,5 gigs and then gives the fatal error. I cannot "escape" my way out of this one as then it gives a fatal error too. Help is appreciated PS: i cannot post the scene as it is not mine to give away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 I got some progress when relocating my alembic caches, still if anyone knows the source of the problem... hit it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 try opening houdini from a command line using hmaster -n myFileName.hip this is never cook mode...it will load the scene but not cook anything and it will let you find stuff that is broken...and get your frame back to frame 1 etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 just tried it and it immidiately goes cooking... strange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 even when deleting all traces of rbd it still has the problem, so now i allocate my alembic and then reimport/rebuild them when the scene is open. I think it has to do with using alembic scenes and using a cache sop and maybe with the foreach function that lies in between of the alembic sop and the cache sop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbukovec Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 hi! maybe your scene is not saved on frame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 hi! maybe your scene is not saved on frame 1 that actually did the trick together with hmaster -n myFileName.hip thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 oh man...yeah - NEVER save anything on a frame other than your start frame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 oh man...yeah - NEVER save anything on a frame other than your start frame Good point You know what I still miss, watching all kinds of tutorials and learning stuff in real lectures. Some sort of best practices sheet with in there all kinds of tips that when you hold on to those, you make things easier for yourself and others to work with your files. this is such a point right now these things are scattered over lectures, tutorials and forums. maybe opening a wiki or rather a github page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strages Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 while browsing around in the expressions i see this: ressions/opisloading'>http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.0/expressions/opisloading opisloading could be usefull too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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