What are people's experiences with Houdini and textures. I've recently done a bit of work with them and it's not great. For example, certain functions can take super long to load textures to points (that was a bug in the past but it seems to be back), and they are often not updated when the files on disk change. Updating them through the render menu usually makes Karma crash or in the case of SOPs sometimes doesn't do anything at all. I have files that cause Houdini ram usage race to infinity until everything locks up. Cache clearing helps sometimes, but not always. Loading anything in cops is superslow.

Any lookdev, or lighters, here who can share experiences and tricks?