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Geometry not rendering in Houdini

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 8:37 am
by Nimrod7
Hi everyone,

New to octane here, pardon me if it's asked again, did a search but no luck.

I have a geometry, which is mesh output from a flip sim, but octane doesn't render it at all. I know it's depended on GPU Ram to load the geometry, but it's not so heavy (I think), and I have a 1080 TI.
Setup of Octane is definitely correct, since it's rendering anything else. I have no clue what's wrong.
I have attached the file (Houdini bgeo), if anyhone want's to have a look.

Btw is Octane Standalone included with VR subscription?
I would like to try there, but I can't find it.

Thanks,
Kind Regards,
Bill.

Re: Geometry not rendering in Houdini

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 10:12 am
by juanjgon
Hi and welcome!

We have a Houdini specific forum to post bugs, feature requests, etc. It is easier to follow all the Houdini plugin topics there ;)
viewforum.php?f=101

About your question related to the attached file, the problem is that you have built an object using polygon soups, that currently the plugin can't render directly. The solution is to add a Convert SOP node to convert the polygon soups to regular polygons. You can convert the polysoup before writing the bgeo files, or later after reading the file, as you can see in the attached image.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Re: Geometry not rendering in Houdini

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 12:13 pm
by Nimrod7
Hi Juanjo,

Thanks so much. I didn't know about that.
I will follow on in Houdini forum from now on!

Kind Regards,
Bil.