drdespair

Also KDE doesnt have the popup issue thats in Genome. (when you quick without saving, the popup is screwed up in Genome, but in KDE it works fine)

Cheers,
D

Hi,

Thanks for the feed back, it got me thinking along the right lines, I tried copying the files to the temp directory and trying from there.. but it still opened the file with nothing in it, so I started thinking that what if the problem is in the file it self. I have RedHat installed so I went in there and redid the unpacking of the second cd oringinal tar. (orinignaly I unpacked the tar with Winzip) once I extracted everything I return to windows and boom the file loaded. A bit bizare but something must be extracting incorrecly from winzip. My only question left is with the actual files in lets say the demo of the ?houdwink? When I unzip the .zip files provided on the community website, unpack it into some directory and then open the hid file, I get all the bones and animation, but no geometry, when I look into the network editor the houdwink geometry has information that the .geo file is missing. If I look into the aliases I see the followin setting for .geo files ../GEO and the .hid it states the complete path for the hid file that I opened, if I copy the path to geo and change the path leg to xxx/geo the geometry opens. The question here is why doesnt it find the geometry originaly? I havent tried it, but I am shure I will have the same issues with any files that have their models directory outside of the hid files. Can someone give me a hint on this? Thanks!

Best Regards,

Denis

I am trying to look at some of the examples provided on the CD2 in the learningData\sample_files\ and everytime I open the files in Houdini I get the desktop from the projects I assume but there is nothing in the project??? I have the same issue opening the demo\UserguideFiles ? What am I doing wrong? I can open my own projects, but I have no idea whats going on with the path reading for the rest.. please help!!

Best Regards,

Denis