Hi Guys,

I've searched but had no luck trying to figure out the Background Render option on the ROP output driver / DOP I/O node. I just can't get it to process anything. If I render the same thing with the regular render button it pumps out a sequence of Bgeo files - no problem.

Is there any trick to get this bad boy working?

Seems like it would be awesome to have this caching while I continue to work in Houdini.

Any help would be much appreciated

Works fine on OSX 14.0.292

Rob

circusmonkey
Works fine on OSX 14.0.292

Rob

This is weird! Is this possibly an Indie limitation?

Would anyone mind opening up this test file and checking if the Background Render feature is working?

Doesn't work on my PC

Thanks so much.

Changed your file path to something sensible and it works fine

Rob

Thanks for checking it Rob, new build works wonders

Hi Guys! I'm having the same issue here. I'm using build 14.0.361.
What do you mean by use a sensible name path?
Thanks in advance for helping!

I'm having this issue as well. Houdini Indie 15.0.416 on Windows 10.

After clicking “Save to Disk in Background”, the job will appear in the list, and register as completed, but no cache files will be created or saved.

EDIT: Submitted an RFE - Bug (ID=75471)

SideFx support helped me figure out the issue: If the file paths for your files have a space between words, hbatch will not run and your background render won't do anything.

So if your file path is similar to #1, you need to remove the space between the words to look like #2:


1. /MyCompany/Client/Project Name/Houdini/renders/MySim_$F4.bgeo.sc
2. /MyCompany/Client/Project_Name/Houdini/renders/MySim_$F4.bgeo.sc


The same is true for the location of your HIP file itself; make sure the path doesn't contain any spaces between words.

SideFx is planning to fix this inconsistency, but it's probably a good practice for us to adapt our files paths in such a manner anywho.

Luke Letellier
SideFx support helped me figure out the issue: If the file paths for your files have a space between words, hbatch will not run and your background render won't do anything.

So if your file path is similar to #1, you need to remove the space between the words to look like #2:


1. /MyCompany/Client/Project Name/Houdini/renders/MySim_$F4.bgeo.sc
2. /MyCompany/Client/Project_Name/Houdini/renders/MySim_$F4.bgeo.sc


The same is true for the location of your HIP file itself; make sure the path doesn't contain any spaces between words.

SideFx is planning to fix this inconsistency, but it's probably a good practice for us to adapt our files paths in such a manner anywho.

Thanks for that info Luke, appreciate it