I'm new to Houdini, so please bear with me! I have a pretty standard FLIP fluid simulation going and I'm exporting it to Alembic to render with the rest of my scene in 3ds Max. I'm using Houdini Indie if that matters.

I drop in an Alembic ROP after the surface meshing and all is well, with one annoying exception. When I render the Alembic ROP through Deadline I don't get any progress indications. I know it's saving the geometry out because the file is getting bigger, but I'd like to be able to see the progress in Deadline so I can trigger render frames as the sim frames finish.

When I look at the console output through Deadline I see that Houdini isn't putting out any information on what's going on, it's just silently running the job.

Is there a setting in Houdini I need to tick in order for the Alembic ROP to give progress information? (FWIW I get the same behavior on AutoDOP render / cache jobs so I'm guessing it's bigger than Alembic ROP)

Sorry if that's reviving a topic that's too old, but - we're doing that by printing the current frame to the console, and since Deadline is picking up on that, it's showing as progress