Mark Wallman
Hi Ole.

That's good to know. I'll try switching the slash direction within houdini to Linux not windows. That is the only thing thatvi have done differently. Best ps what is your version of deadline?

We are currently on Deadline 10.1.15.2

Mikel Zuloaga
Hey guys, I had the same problem...

Thank you for sharing your findings Mikel, we had the same issue as well and we got it to work! @Mark: We got it to work on Linux with Houdini 18.5.596 using the instructions by Mikel above.

Sugleris
Beautiful work my friend!! I can't say the trailer spoiled anything as the title already did.

Cheers!


Did you guys primarily work on the water fx or did you also work on the rbd / landslides?

We did both water and landslide. Glad you liked it!

chrism
Hey Korhon! My wife and a friend of mine saw it at it's international première at the Toronto International Film Festival last night. They said it was awesome and were really impressed by the effects you guys did. Grats!

That's really good to hear. So glad they liked it!!

Thank you very much for the detailed description, ajz3d. Completions does seem to work now. I do get the following error message in PyCharm (3.4.1):

Failed modules

Python 2.7.5 (C:\Program Files\Houdini14.0\python27\python2.7.exe)

- _hou
- hjson
- htext

Generation of skeletons for the modules above will be tried again when the modules are updated or a new version of generator is available.


It seems to not matter though.

However, I found a workaround for code completion in PyCharm using docstring type hints. This does not eliminate the unresolved attribute references warning when it comes to enums in kwargs, but it does show me full lists of methods available to objects.

Hi ajz3d, could you please share the steps you did to get PyCharm to work with Houdini?

Hi,

I need to project a texture to geometry and not be dependent on clean uvs or good geometry. Right now, the procedure in this post [forums.odforce.net] works: Using a light as a projector with a custom shader and a illuminance loop to render the projector exclusively.

While researching this, it is to my understanding that due to a limitation in Mantra (only one global camera), you can't project from one camera and render from another using shader projection, and thus need to use lights. Problem is, lights needs to be managed: Objects needs to be included or excluded and this creates a management overhead for our artists. Would it be possible to use something else than lights to get this working?

Hi all,

up until recently we was quite happy in Windows land, but due to some issues with memory management in Houdini, we have been forced to look into Linux for sim work. Currently we have installed Mint and Houdini 13, and have managed to map the DFS share on a Win2012 server to a folder, but we are completely stuck on being able to use the same hip files on both windows and linux due to differences in file paths/references etc. Is it possible to have some kind of middle-ground here, and if not, how do we work around it? Converting our entire backend and pipeline is not an option at this point. If you have experience from a mixed OS environment, please chime in.

Thanks,
Ole

Nice initiative!

If I may come with some wishful thinking: I do miss a central repository for HIP-files users has posted around on the web. For me they are a critical source to exploring and figuring out the nuts and wirings of Houdini.

Just want to let you know that in Houdini 11.0.744, each frame starts a separate instance of Maxwell Render for every frame, and every instance renders the sequence submitted. So if you submit 200 frames, 200 instances of Maxwell render will render 200 frames. My computer started glowing.

pbowmar
I'd love to hear what people are interested in for future tutorials too!

I am really interested in advanced use and control of DOP fluids. Optimization and customization. Custom solvers and such.

Advanced DOPs in general (Apply Relationshop for example) and production usage. Management of complex linking and complex objects in DOPs. 2012 style destruction for example. How to deal with hardcore amounts of data efficiently and interchanging data for different effects (smoke/dust hand-off).

More advanced particle effects that I find it hard to achieve with the current toolset, in particular goals and flocking behavior (http://vimeo.com/20066205 [vimeo.com]). Morphing/guiding in stages.

Advanced stuff in general

This has been resolved. Thanks!

Ole