Anyone know what causes this Houdini magic trick (happens in V15 released and dailes):

1) New Scene
2) Import FBX file, geometry only
3) Assign any material to geometry
4) Save scene
5) Exit/re-start Houdini
6) Load saved scene
7) node has little red cross hatches and no geometry.
8) GONE, TA DA!

Running on Mac OS.

UPDATE

Figured out what is happening, (but not why). Houdini forgets where the geometry file came from when it reopens the file (.hip, .hiplc, .Houdini-whatever-scene-file-name-yada-yada) and if it is not in the $HIP folder, its lost. Symptom is that the node Geometry File path is incorrect. Solution, lump everything together in one place, i.e. $HIP/everything.* (sigh).

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Lars

please submit a bug report and we'll look into it
https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=768&Itemid=239 [sidefx.com]

thanks!

arctor
please submit a bug report and we'll look into it
https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=768&Itemid=239 [sidefx.com]

thanks!

Already did.

I have changed the $HOME environment variable to point to a different folder where my Houdini projects are on another hard drive and also created a scene folder to keep .fbx and .obj files in and after all that it has not happened again.

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Lars