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I've read elsewhere in the forums that mantra (H12.1) doesn't support vdb procedurals yet, but I've not found anything on Field3d.
Can anyone confirm that there is no Field3d procedural support for Mantra in H12.1?
Did you build the field3d plugin already? Then you're almost there. The delayed procedural can load any geometry the File SOP can, assuming the plugin to read the geometry type is loaded.
There *is* an unfortunate complication to running the field3d plugin in mantra: it depends on libHoudiniOP3.so, which is not loaded by mantra by default. There's two options for you in that case:
a) Build a special version of f3dtools.so that leaves out ROP_Field3D.C
b) Start mantra like so: ‘LD_PRELOAD=$HDSO/libHoudiniOP3.so mantra … ’
I'm assuming you're running on Linux. For Windows, only option a) is available to you, since Windows doesn't really have any equivalent of LD_PRELOAD.