horia747 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Hi there, quite new to Houdini and I'm struggling to find documentation for something like this. I have a scene with a building where there are multiple fires starting at windows of varying sizes. This means I have different source volumes (fuel & temp, and a pump) for each window. I want to be able to render the pyro from each window separately and perhaps even have dynamic resizes for each source. The only way I could imagine doing this would be if it was possible to have multiple smoke object nodes that can reference different source volumes (the fuel & temp, and the pump). I saw that clustering exists but from what I understand it only accepts point sources? I am using a fluid source node building SDF from geometry to create the source volumes. What would be the best way of doing this? Thanks in advance and apologies if this has a very simple answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisdunham95 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Id take a look at ; Theirs some clustering techniques on this thread, and go take a look on the Houdini Go Procedural Vimeo page - their is some videos on Pyro clustering (sourcing and bounds) which should be of use hope this helps Chris. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 if you know that your overall settings in the dopnet for the fire sim will stay the same and all you want to replace is essentially the incoming sources then I would do the following: - setup a source for each of your windows. - pipe that into a switch node with value $WEDGE - amount of wedges = amount of sources. - enjoy time off while computer cranks through all your sims with one button push this of course applies to all your fields you want to source into your sim 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 let me know if you need me to setup a simple example file @horia747 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horia747 Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) Thanks @Jesper Rahlff & @chrisdunham95 For now I have just created a couple of DOP networks to at least separate the window and roof fires. I can see that wedging could be a good way of caching and then having control over each fire. Clustering could also be a good option. Will definitely look in to these more when I have time... On a completely different note, I am now trying to render said simulations and for some reason any extra image plane that I have added has this glitch distortion around it... The main combined pass is completely fine. Is this a bug? https://gyazo.com/17976b3da09c35b83d143bf72c8fce81 Any thoughts would be appreciated. burning_barn.hiplc turret_model.abc window_hole.abc Edited January 12, 2018 by horia747 forgot to add files... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 can't really render the file without the alembics etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horia747 Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 Sorry about that. I have edited the post now to include the alembics. The glitch seems to be happening on the wall (window_hole) geometry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 okay here is a few things I want you to try. because I am not getting any errors when rendering this, however I did not have access to your camera so I had to put one down myself. try to put down a camera and render from that rather than your alembic camera.. just to see if its your alembic camera causing problems. Also I see you are using IPR to render, try to render to mplay to see if the issue still persist. this might just be an IPR thingg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horia747 Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 Thanks a lot for helping me out. I have attached the scene camera now. I have tried creating a new camera, rendering to mplay & EXR to disk, and changing the wall material. Problem persists. Interesting that it is not visible on your end when viewing the other render passes. https://gyazo.com/bd914e666e20840a2fbe565e765cd065 camera_scene_n.abc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) even when importing your camera abc it renders just fine. However all your indirect AOVS are empty. its only your direct AOVS that holds information. what version of houdini are you on? I am using 16.0.619 edit: just noticed it was in your screenshot.. hmm hard to say what the problem could be. try to update your houdini if you can. Edited January 13, 2018 by Jesper Rahlff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horia747 Posted January 13, 2018 Author Share Posted January 13, 2018 I seem to be on the latest version... Looks like I may need to get in contact with SideFX to see whats up with this. Thanks for all your help. I'll update this thread when I have a fix. Horia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesper Rahlff Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 maybe try a restart of your machhine.. then reinstall houdini if it didnt make a difference, and then contact sidefx. just to be safe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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