Wells Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I'm have troubles importing my character DA. When I try to import the DA I realized that it keeps crashing around 800mb - 1 gb. I am running houdini 9 32x on: Windows XP professional x64 edition Dual Core AMD opteron 2.21 GHZ, 8 gb of ram Nvidia Quadro 5600 176 nvidia driver Does Anybody have suggestions of how to increase the allowed memory usage? or work with large digital assets. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 and DAs can be huge without running into memory issues.... we have some assets that are ~300 MB that load instantly... here is a suggestion... open Houdini switch to a textport view and make it the ONLY viewport load the asset in the textport -> cd /obj -> opadd geo YourAsset -> opset -d off * now switch to a regular desktop and try to display the asset HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wells Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Thanks. This didn't help, but I can understand how it might. So I'll definitely use this tip in the future. I've been retracing my steps and I think it might be a bad DA. Thank god for subversion. Thanks again, for your advice. -Mark and DAs can be huge without running into memory issues....we have some assets that are ~300 MB that load instantly... here is a suggestion... open Houdini switch to a textport view and make it the ONLY viewport load the asset in the textport -> cd /obj -> opadd geo YourAsset -> opset -d off * now switch to a regular desktop and try to display the asset HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wells Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 Cool you're a TD at Core. Did you do much rigging there? Thanks.This didn't help, but I can understand how it might. So I'll definitely use this tip in the future. I've been retracing my steps and I think it might be a bad DA. Thank god for subversion. Thanks again, for your advice. -Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 -> opadd geo YourAsset I think this should be more like ... opadd YourAsset cd YourAsset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I think this should be more like ... opadd YourAsset cd YourAsset Or.. In case opadd renames it due to naming conflicts, catch the name of the new node with -v cd `opadd -v YourAsset` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I think this should be more like ... opadd YourAsset cd YourAsset BAH! be quiet Ed!! @Wells yeah, I'm one of the 2-3 Houdini riggers here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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