cwhite
SOP Import recooks on each frame if the input is time dependent, so you may want to use a Cache LOP if you plan to scrub through and play back in LOPs

cwhite
You can just import agents with the SOP Import LOP

dyts
Each time I make a render with Karma my houdini indie switch to non commercial ?

Command Exit Code: -1073741819

mantra: Unable to clean up temp geometry: CUsers/RENDER~1/AppData/Local/Temp/houdini_temp/ifds/storage/1040_Positive_stadium.182_000_62038.bgeo.sc

Accessing “\\RFSERVER\hq\houdini_distros\hfs.windows-x86_64\bin\hython” …
Loading .hip file \\RFSERVER\hq/projects/Stadium_tools/Positive_stadium.hiplc.
PROGRESS: 0% mantra Version 17.0.352 (Compiled on Oct 9 2018)
ERROR: The attempted operation failed.
Error: Unable to save geometry for: /obj/crowdsource/filecache1
SOP Error: Invalid source /obj/crowdsource/filecache1/read_back
Error: Unable to read file “//RFSERVER/hq/projects/Stadium_tools/geo/Positive_stadium.filecache1.0.bgeo.sc”.
Error loading layer. The following paths were searched:
$JOB/agents/Liam/Liam_layer.default.lay
//RFServer/hq/projects/Stadium_tools/agents/Liam/Liam_layer.default.lay
(near byte offset 2443236, line 1, column 2443237)
Backend IO.

mkps
Are you familiar with stamping in the copy stamp? You could use the stamp variables to make a random offset, then put a time shift after your smoke object merge and use an expression like this where “offset” is your stamped variable.

$F+stamp("../copy1", "offset", 0)

rvinluan
No worries. If you ever run a similar job again and encounter the same error then feel free to post the job output and diagnostics file here.

Cheers,
Rob

rvinluan
Would you be able to post the job output and diagnostics files for the job that produced the warning?

Cheers,
Rob

Hi Alex,

Sorry for joining late in this thread but were you able to solve this tile stitching warning?

Cheers,
Rob

paleoPixels
Thank you, this is a perfect start to the weekend, this did it ! Again, thank you Goddy !

Goddy McRoodt
next problem

after failing the job this is the reason

“ERROR: Cannot open file //localhost/Htest_01_4.hiplc”

rvinluan
Hello,

Sounds like the HQueue jobs are trying to access a network folder path that does not exist. By default, HQueue jobs try to launch Houdini from a network folder location. For Windows, I recommend configuring HQueue so that it launches Houdini from a local install instead.

In your HQueue Render or Simulation ROP, set the Target HFS parameter to this:
C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 16.0.ZZZ
where 16.0.ZZZis the number of the Houdini build that you have installed.

Then re-submit the job.

Cheers,
Rob