Sealth

soooo, I've got a great texture showing up in the viewport but for some reason when I try to render in Mantra, I get what you see below? Any suggestions?

Just wondering if there are any tutorials or example files of how to create an outside environment in Houdini… for example I'm looking to do an animation of a truck driving down the highway and wanted to have sky, mountains in the background and something (grass or rocks or both in the foreground) and a road with gravel at the side of the shoulder. Any tips on how to accomplish this?

Thanks for you input!

yes, however, when I try they polyknit operation and I select the 6 points it add vertices between points that I am not looking to have (although it does add a primitive)?