Rakesh Malik

I haven't yet updated to .13, but I did discover that after setting the cage setting to use the input bounding box, the Optix error (eventually) disappeared. I guess it wasn't immediate because some other node was cooking.

While working on some texturing, I decided to give the baking setup a try, and ran into an unexpected error: the baker is trying to allocate Optix to run its tracer. This is failing because I don't have an nVidia GPU, but the tracer configured in the Bake Geometry Textures node is Embree, which even though it probably doesn't support my AMD GPU, does support my AMD CPU.

Either way though the baker shouldn't be trying to use the Optix tracer when I've selected the Embree tracer, and the Baker doesn't even have Optix listed as an option, which is appropriate in this case.

Thanks!

SideFX is starting the teasers for Houdini 21 at the upcoming conferences also, so maybe it's going to land this summer. Or SideFX will tell us this summer when it's going to drop.

The SideFX folks have a habit of waiting until they're actually close to ready to release before they say they're close to ready to release, which is a habit more companies should have.


I'm hoping for some cool demos at SIGGRAPH even if it's not released by then because SIGGRAPH this year is in my neighborhood!