sascha herfort

Hey guys!

One of my HDAs no longer shows up in the tab menu at all, even though its 'Menu Entry' shows up as "Digital Asset" in the asset preferences.

When I try to save the asset as a new version via the 'Digital Asset -> Save As' context menu, I eventually get an error print in the python console. (see attached screenshot)

When I open up the containing .hda file, it seems that the offending asset is missing the <xml> block in its creation script that, among other things, contains the <toolSubmenu> property.

Also I discovered that the VHDAIncreaseVersionDialog() class in houdini's assettools.py will call copyToVHDAFile() while passing 'None' for the tabmenu parameter, unlike calls to that function elsewhere.
May this have been the original culprit?

I'm just speculating - however I did increase the version on this asset once.

Does anybody have an idea how to repair my HDA, without ripping out its guts and building it from scratch?

Hey guys!

We are using Modo to create 3d meshes in our production and it often happens that, when brought into Houdini, the UVs of the .lwo are messed up. Despite looking good in Modo and our game engine.

It's possible to work around this by exporting the same mesh from Modo to something like .obj, but often times we need to import dozens of .lwos into Houdini, which makes that workaround impractical.

Does anybody have some wisdom to share on how to resolve this?

graham
You should be able to find older version builds on the SideFX ftp server: ftp.sidefx.com

Thank you!
I was able to get houdini 16.0 from the ftp and install it successfully.