Matt Estela
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Matt Estela is VFX Lead in Residence at the UTS Animal Logic. Academy. Previously at Animal Logic he's been a VR Supervisor, Lighting Lead, Fx Lead, CG Supervisor, and is one of those annoying Houdini evangelists you don't want to sit next to on the bus.
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Can Houdini non commercial read Commercial? Aug. 23, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
… But your session will be downgraded to non commercial as well.
PDG support with tractor (ropfetch and native pdg ris node) Aug. 22, 2019, 3:04 a.m.
We're in the home stretch on our short film at the university, a few things have changed in the 2 months since we last rendered. Might need a bit of love from both the Pixar side and the Sidefx side, cross-posting this on both forums to be sure. 
We can get the PDG fetch node to execute a Mantra ROP in another network with Tractor, but it fails when we point it to a RIS ROP. It looks like it's expecting a SOHO interface, which doesn't exist in the new Renderman-for-Houdini:
So ideally we need 2 things:
-a native RIS PDG node
-RIS ROP compatibility when run from a PDG fetch node.
This is pretty important for us, we can't render without PDG support!
Cheers,
-matt
We can get the PDG fetch node to execute a Mantra ROP in another network with Tractor, but it fails when we point it to a RIS ROP. It looks like it's expecting a SOHO interface, which doesn't exist in the new Renderman-for-Houdini:
ERROR: The attempted operation failed.
Error: No soho script program specified for output driver: RFH.py.
So ideally we need 2 things:
-a native RIS PDG node
-RIS ROP compatibility when run from a PDG fetch node.
This is pretty important for us, we can't render without PDG support!
Cheers,
-matt
PDG Assuming for hip, should support hipnc for schools? Aug. 22, 2019, 2:01 a.m.
Temp local fix,
$HFS/houdini/pdg/types/schedulers/prtractor.py
line 556, change
to
And on to the next weird pdg issue…
$HFS/houdini/pdg/types/schedulers/prtractor.py
line 556, change
hip_remote = '__PDG_DIR__/' + os.path.expandvars('$HIPNAME.hip')
to
hip_remote = '__PDG_DIR__/' + os.path.expandvars('$HIPNAME.hipnc')
And on to the next weird pdg issue…