Hello,

I am using Houdini 16.0.557 and trying to test a simple scene with a sphere and an environment light (that is using an HDR). Whenever I use the -H command to add more computers (to do distributed rendering), the geometry does not show up in the render at all. However, the HDR background is still showing, but no the geometry. If I reset the mantra node and render locally, then everything works just fine. I never had these issues with Houdini 15.5. Also, there are no spaces in the hip file (just named it test2.hip). Any ideas why this would be happening in 16?

maybe something to do with new external geometry storage
try enabling Driver/Save Inline Geometry (vm_inlinestorage) property on Mantra ROP

Thank you so much! That did the trick!