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JohnDoe777

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Recent Forum Posts

Force each Work Item to use a Fresh Hython to Dump Memory? Sept. 29, 2026, 1:59 p.m.

Hello,

I am having a real pain reducing as much memory as I can in my PDG network. I'm trying to file cache each asset at the start as the rest of the process uses barely any memory afterwards. I've even gone as far as to create a service specifically to force only one work item be ran for the ROP Fetch to avoid multiple work items running in parreler at that specific stage. However as it doesn't restart hython after each work item so the memory accumulates and eventually runs out. Is there anyway to force hython to restart and intern dump the memory? I know it will be a bit slower needing to restart the scene file every time but it's a compromise that I'm fine with.

Reload Recipes in 20.5? June 4, 2026, 5:23 a.m.

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way, maybe in python that would reload the recipes? I tried reloading the Recipes.hda in the asset manager which shows the newly added recipe in it but the recipe still doesn't show. Also doesn't appear in the recipe manager.

(SOLVED) HDA Display one thing but Output something else? March 18, 2026, 8:37 a.m.

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to have what is visibly displayed in the viewport show something different from what is actually being output? Maybe there's a way to do it through the viewer state? Though typically that's more an overlay so not sure if it's capable of overriding the node output view.

I could set the output to be invisible and add what I want to show as the Guide Geometry but that is not ideal at all.