Lewis Taylor

mabelzile

Elliot Stronge
The custom file path option for saving recipes seems absolutely broken. I tried saving a recipe to a network location (i.e. "//something/goes/here/recipe.hda") and for some scuffed reason it appended "C:\User\username" to the front. When I try manually type the location I cannot delete the "C:\" part without it automatically refilling "C:\User\username" again so I can never fully clear the field. What on earth is up with that? Such incredibly frustrating design.

What is the intended design here? I just want to save a recipe to a common location (i.e. with HOUDINI_PATH or HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH) so other artists can use them.

This is an obvious bug, the fix should be available in the next production build.

This is still broken in H20.5.550, it is doing the same behaviour as Elliot described.

L

Install deadline, it's free now.
then you will have a nice way to submit jobs, make dependencies, etc.

*Tip
when installing DO NOT install security certs, it will drive you mental.




Cheers,
L

Yeah potentially. I think caustics can get so art directed to the point it's why we mostly don't bother unless it's very obvious it's needed. There are times you want to reduce or remove them. I think almost no-one cares about super physical accuracy so they should indeed be some approximation. To do them properly you need di-directional tracing, this I cannot see any renderer supporting as it's just too difficult to solve efficiently. The closest thing you have is renderman's VCM mode, but it is very slow.

I'm all for a fast solution that is controllable.
They sure are a pretty effect.

L