Houdini Freezes while rendering to disk Tweet

[wolfgangschoeffel]

Is there a way to go on working while rendering to disk?
When using IPR, I can use houdini but when rendering to disk, the whole Application is unusable until the rendering finishes.

Houdini Indie 17.5.258
Octane 2018.1.3.0

Thank you!

[juanjgon]

Hi,

Not from the GUI. Octane renders the scene directly from the Houdini internal data, without exporting additional temp. scene files, so as you could understand modify the scene data while a sequence is being rendered is not a good idea.

But you can always render your scene in the background directly from the saved .hip file using hython or hbatch
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/rend ... and-hbatch

Thanks,
-Juanjo