Hello everyone reading!

I was wondering if anyone would know of any good tutorials that focus on creating Assets to bring into Maya. When it comes to basic assets that are just static geometry, I don't have many problems. When it comes to dynamics which include rigid bodies or any sort of pyro sim, they instantly crash Maya completely when I use the Houdini engine to import them.

I'm pretty new to Houdini, so I might be missing something obvious. Wasn't able to find anything myself through research. Any help or resources would be appreciated!

they shouldn't crash.
please check to make sure you're using the right versions, and if you have an example HDA that causes a crash please post a bug report.

I was able to figure out why it was crashing, It seemed like it was because of the way objects were being referenced in the DOP network.

I was able to import the assets in without crashing, but I did encounter another problem. Whenever I batch render with Mental Ray or Renderman (although it works with the Maya software renderer), the houdini-related objects don't update with the frames. In the viewport and in playblasts everything looks fine. During a batch render the asset just looks like a completely static mesh throughout the entire length of the render.

EDIT: I added an example I have to the post, Just a simple box with dynamics. It looks fine in the viewport and in Maya software, but it doesn't update when I batch render it out. I'm hoping someone would be able to help me find any beginner's mistakes I made. Hoping it will be something simple…

Thanks to anyone who can help me!