Hi ,

I have used some free plugins wich gave me a non commercial hipnc file. So i got rid of those plugins and reinstall houdini 9.5 master , however the hipnc file keep showing the non commercial flag even after renaming it to hip . How can get it back to it's original hip extension ?

Thanks .

This is the way it is.

It is the way sideFX has set it up so a studio don't have 40 non commercial seats and 3 commercial seats and still get the benefits of the studio that payed for all of the licenses it needs. So parts of a file that are made with the apprentice version are “infected” as non commercial, if you bring them into your scene your scene is now non commercial too. so you need to go back to the file before you added the “NC” asset and work from there. If you want that asset you will probably want to recreate it in your commercial version of Houdini. There are ways to put hip files out to script and back in again but i let someone else describe that.

If you used from assets from the Houdini Exchange, then those should always be commercial. Let us know if you find any that are non-commercial and we can fix those. (There was a brief time where non-commercial assets weren't being converted upon uploading to the Exchange).

I took so many plugins but used none of them . I don't remember wich ones i used as assets . Too bad if i have to start it again from scratch !

Thanks

The latest builds of H9.5 (within the last few weeks I believe) has some improvements to help you figure out which .otl files contain non-commercial assets.
If you can run a shell, you can use the hotl command on .otl files. We now should indicate if that asset is non-commercial.

I had to clean out some non-commercial assets myself way back before this feature was added. I just put down all the assets and tracked which ones gave me the non-commercial warning then removed those .otl files from my HOUDINI_PATH. If you don't have or know how to use a shell do that.

If you find that non-commercial asset and it is one that you depend on for production plus you have Escape or Master, then contact support about having it converted.


-jeff

Hi ,

Tanks for your replies , side fx should look at this “bug” where the non commercial flag is kept inside houdini after removing all commercial OTLs from a file . When you spend hours of work without using any commercial OTL then realize that the job done become non commercial is a real pain .