Hello,

My experience with Houdini is only a basic “Digital-Tutors” introduction.

I had picked this issue up @ Siggraph and just now allotted some time to do it.

Tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/2czpf9 [tinyurl.com]

For some reason, the character is not showing up in the tutorial. I also get this when loading the liquidmetal_start.hip:

Load warings for DHoudini/Tutorials/3dWorldMag/TDW98.t_houdini_update/houdini9_tutorial/liquidmetal_start.hip

Warning: Problem while synchronizing child node:
Warning: Skipping unrecognized parameter “HOOK_OUT_NECK_t”.
Skipping unrecongnized parameter“set_pretransforms”.
Skipping unrecongnized parameter“sepparm”.
Skipping unrecongnized parameter“controls”.
Skipping unrecongnized parameter“sepparm”.
Skipping unrecongnized parameter“controls”.



Any input on resolving this issue is appreciated.

Have you checked the version of houdini you have against the link you downloaded the file from?

There are 2 links available for downloading more than likely you need to download the second.

it is also possible that the version of houdini you have can no longer display that file due to revisions and updates.

Go to http://www.sidefx.com/exchange [sidefx.com] and you will see a new entry for “3D World Mercury Rising Tutorial Files”

These files have been updated to work with Houdini 9.5. The autorig tools were changed between versions and the file needed to have the assets updated by hand.

Robert

Dark, Robert,

Thank you for responding.

I have downloaded the updated files and will proceed to explore.

Regards

Hello Robert,

Currently I'm having the followining issues:

Tutorial: @ step 23:
I render out about liquid_metal_001.bgeo - liquid_metal_505.bgeo and Houdini crashes. (I get a Memory allocation error)

My Workstation:
-Dell Precision 690
-XP SP3
-Intel Xeon CPU
-5160 @ 3.00GHz
-2.99GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM
-Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI (Memory 256mb)


Tutorial @ step 24:

right-click the file1 node's output>select Sourcing> Object Merge>Place>Right-click on "merge1 node's input????????
Problem: merge1 has no input, only output….

Please advise
Fess

I am not sure why you would be encountering a crash.

The object merge between file1 and particlefluidsurface1 should be a merge. That is an error in the lesson. then you can RMB on the merge's input.

There are full screen jpg versions of all the images that should help where the printed image is hard to read. That might help in some steps.

Robert