Hi, I installed Apprentice 6.0.265 on an Octane a couple of days ago and have been doing a little bit of modeling. It seems that when I add a shader sop to the model, and give it a shader, the hip files become corrupt. Meaning when I run Houdini the next time and try to open the file again, I receive a fatal error and Houdini closes. So far it appears that this only happens when I apply shaders to a model. Is this a known bug, and is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks.

Hey,
This sounds like you need graphics patches from SGI. What version of Irix are you running? Theoretically any version of 6.5 should work, but 6.5.11 or higher is recommended. Also, if you have a newer graphics card in the machine, you likely need graphics patches to address this issue.

CHeers,

PeteR B

Thanks for the tip Peter. I'm running irix 6.5.14m and the graphics board is SSI. I'll try and see what I can find as far as patches for the gfx.