Hey all,

I'm trying to trouble shoot a render issue. We are trying to set up our Houdini render farm and we are running into an issue.

I put the standard ocean tool in a scene and made IFDs from it. Sent that to the farm. The mantra render nodes, ignored the displacement “.pic” sequence and the ocean came out flat for 240 frames.

We busted the IFD open in a text editor and all the paths to the “pic” sequence are correct. But we can't figure out why the displacement is being ignored.

When the scene is rendered in an interactive license, the displacement renders fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Billy

Are you using mapped drives or machine names for your pathing?

It is a UNC path, so it's a share name for the network. At least that's what I'm being told.

Any ideas?