Olm
May 29, 2020 12:45:21
Hello,
My scene was working perfectly fine until this morning when I opened Houdini. I tried to run a flipbook of a flipfluid sim and every time I press start nothing happens. The dialogue box in the lower left corner says “flip book generation error” and nothing else.
If I try to open Mplay, it is delayed, but sends this error out before starting “mantra: unable to clean up temp geometry”.
Anyone have a similar issue before? I've tried deleting pref files but that doesn't seem to help. The flipbook does work in a blank new scene, so I think it is specific to my scene. However, it will only work once - if I reopen the scene and then move to a new scene scene again the same error occurs. The flipbook only works on a fresh restart of Houdini.
keithlynch_81
Dec. 23, 2020 09:57:12
Hi Olm, did you ever find a solution for this please? I'm having the same issue.
Anthony Dias
Jan. 21, 2021 02:36:07
I just ran into the same issue. MPlay wouldn't even launch.
After copoying and pasting all my nodes into a new Houdini file, MPlay launches, but only 2 frames are outputted to the flipbook.
The error at bottom left says: Flipbook Generation Error: Unable to create image /Users...(project path)
I'm on Houdini 18.5.458 on Mac OSX Catalina if that makes any difference.
Martin Salfity
Jan. 29, 2021 10:45:19
I was having the same problem on one file. I noticed that for some reason on the Render Flipbook settings I had 'Scoped Channel Key Frames Only' turned on. By default that should be off, switching it back off solved the issue.
ATOM_cg
Feb. 12, 2021 08:12:40
Create folders manually, that helps me.
jakeodgers
April 2, 2021 12:58:50
Martin Salfity
I was having the same problem on one file. I noticed that for some reason on the Render Flipbook settings I had 'Scoped Channel Key Frames Only' turned on. By default that should be off, switching it back off solved the issue.
GENIUS. I was struggling all morning trying to figure this out and that was the solution. Thanks a million
bennu
Oct. 30, 2022 03:24:03
That helped resolve the same issue I had. Thank you!
Martin Salfity
I was having the same problem on one file. I noticed that for some reason on the Render Flipbook settings I had 'Scoped Channel Key Frames Only' turned on. By default that should be off, switching it back off solved the issue.
heyJasonLee
Nov. 20, 2023 04:18:57
I also met this problem, but I find if you type characters in output files then you must give a surffix(.png,.png....), or do not type any characters in here