RealFlow plugins for Windows version of 9.5 are available only for 32 bit VC7 version. The problem is that ‘realworld’ RF meshes have 1 million or more triangles. Houdini VC7 cannot seem to handle this much data. Though this is not a problem for Widows Maya. I get Memor Allocation Error, whenever 9.5 VC7 memory usage goes above 2.5gb. I have 64 bit Windows.
Does anyone have a workaround for this issue.

Dave Rindner

Sorry, I don't have any workarounds but my interest is piqued. Do you know exactly how many triangles are in your mesh?

In RealFlow, mesh object info states how many polys are in a generated mesh.

In Houdini , as you know, simple middle click on a node will tell you triangle count and memory usage.

But here is one workaround.

In VC 7 32bit version, set SOP culling to 5 and OBJ cache to zero, in Preferences.
Convert RF bin files to BGEO sequences using GeoROP. Then transfer to 64 bit version for further work.

DaveR