Maybe the email did not work that you gave me, i sent you now also a PM with the link to the core dump.

Cheers,

Lutz

Hi,
thanks for your response.
We have recently updated to the most recent Octane and Octane Plugin version, at least that's what i thought. The version available on the download page is still Octane_2021.1.4.3, in the forum i now also found the version Octane_2021.1.5.0 which i will try to install ...

Description: While exporting from Houdini to ORBX a segfault happens.
Crashes happen occasionally but on a regular basis.
The error appears to be a NULL pointer possibly happening in an iterator,
modifying the underlying data structure while iterating.

Although the error happens in the linked ...

Hi Juanjo,

we do not render several frames, we only do stills. Yet I dont have a clue how to perform what you proposed but from the logical perspective it sounds good.
But personally you dont have experience with this workflow, right?

Thanks!

Goetz

Hi there,

so I have a question about best-practice for orbx-creation using the houdini-plugin for Octane.
What we do is that we have one machine running, connected to Deadline, to create orbx-files for our renderfarm in parallel (10 workers).

Deadline is calling hython which is doing his thing ...

Hi there,

thank you for working so hard to keep Octane for Houdini updated.

Could you please tell me if this got fixed?

viewtopic.php?f=101&t=77107

Thanks!

Goetz

Speaking about initialisation timing, do you think there is a way to have Octane running persistent in a houdini session? I understand that this might not be related to your plugin, however maybe you know something about that?

Hi juanjgon,

thank you for reaching out.
This is a headless machine, we only run hython-bin / hython on this machine and I cannot even test the GUI-version of Houdini as I cannot connect a screen.
The machine is quite heavy though, 64 cores, 250 gb RAM. We do not have this issue with version 1_5_1 ...

[Octane] Octane Render for Houdini. Build 2020.2.0.4 (Build date: Feb 8 2021 17:02:10)
[Octane] Octane API: 2020.2
[Octane] HDK API: 18.5.351
[Octane] Houdini host version: 18.5.351
[Octane] Initializing Octane API
[17:59:08.720] Started logging on 03.03.21 18:59:08
[17:59:08.722]
[17:59:08.722 ...

Let me confirm tomorrow. Also then I can provide a full log. Thanks!

Btw, do you have an idea why authentication can only be done twice in parallel?