Heya,
a question - when I put down a custom otl, Houdini immediately into cooking mode with the message mostly on display beeing:

“Updating Exports <- Evaluating Python”

This can take minutes in some cases. My question would be - what's happening? And how can I stop that from happening (or make it faster)?

Thanks,
Carsten

It's hard to say because. What happens is that “Updating Exports” was the *last* thing that it was doing. The real thing that it's doing isn't outputting any messages so it stays at “Updating Exports”. I tried to fix some of these after H14 was out the door but there's lot of stuff that still doesn't report.

You could try turning on the Performance Monitor first and switching it to event log view. You then need to enable the toggle at the BOTTOM of the performance monitor pane. Now put down your otl.

Thanks for the tip - will give it a try!

Did you end up solving this? After a windows update, houdini just started doing this for every node I create and has become so slow it's unusable. It could also be due to an ndidia driver update.

You might be running into this: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/49544/ [sidefx.com]