I'm attempting to export a 1,320 frame animation to ORBX to render in Standalone. I'm using Houdini 18.0.566 with the matching "OctaneX PR2 Houdini 18.0.566 OSX" plugin. Houdini will only allow me to export around 200 frames at a time or it will suddenly crash. Usually there is no warning when crashing and no error message, the app just closes. If I export in batches of 200 frames, I can get most of the timeline, but for whatever reason it always crashes during the last 85 frames. I find this strange since these are some of the lighter-weight frames.
I've looked at my Houdini file frame by frame and there doesn't seem to be any issue.
Not sure if it is a clue, but the standalone renderer is also throwing these erroneous messages when loading the orbx files I manage to export. These textures are not missing and they are properly rendered by Standalone despite this warning:
It also might be worth noting that the reason I am attempting to use Standalone in the first place is because there is a different bug happening in Houdini (maybe it is related?). After rendering about 10-20 frames of animation (doesn't matter which 10-20), the render begins to fail with this dialogue after each frame:
Sometimes it also then tells me I have no internet connection (I do and it is rock solid) or some other incorrect info about my license:
At this point, very strange things start to happen with Houdini and I have to restart (if it hasn't already crashed). For instance, all of the keyboard shortcuts in the app menus are replaced with the missing-character icon:
Obviously, all of this unpredictability makes it hard to work. But, this is PR software, so I get it. I'm wondering if this Houdini/Octane version is having some sort of VRAM memory management or disk i/o issue. It seems to be incredibly unstable overall.
I'm attaching the Houdini crash logs.
Thanks!
My specs:
Mac Pro (2019) 2.7 GHz 24-Core Intel Xeon W
macOS Catalina 10.15.7
AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB
384 GB 2933 MHz DDR4
Standalone: Octane X PR2 + PR3
Plugin: OctaneX PR2 Houdini 18.0.566
Houdini 18.0.566