Hello,

I am very new to Houdini (2 days) but trying to learn as much as possible.

I'm beginning to understand Mantras rendering workflow, but what I don't understand is:

When I hit “Render to Disk”, I get no feedback from Houdini at all. All I get is a growing .png on my disk.
I looked around but there is not much online about such trivial things.
I also got Verbose Level up to 5 and “Alfred Style Progress” ON.

The other problem is, that it does not save any render passes (I need Direct/Indirect Lighting).
The “Extract Image Planes” is checked and it should infer from filename.

My Filename is “PROJECT_Layer.$F.png”

Am I missing something?


Thanks so much for any help!

You don't see a progress bar popup unless you are rendering a frame range. .PNG is not the best output for Mantra, most people use OpenEXR, TIFF or TGA.

Can you post a scene with your Mantra node in it?

Enivob
You don't see a progress bar popup unless you are rendering a frame range. .PNG is not the best output for Mantra, most people use OpenEXR, TIFF or TGA.

Can you post a scene with your Mantra node in it?

Well, upon rendering a frame range I got every info I need.
I'll also apply your image format tip, thanks for helping a newbie!