Rakesh Malik

SideFX is starting the teasers for Houdini 21 at the upcoming conferences also, so maybe it's going to land this summer. Or SideFX will tell us this summer when it's going to drop.

The SideFX folks have a habit of waiting until they're actually close to ready to release before they say they're close to ready to release, which is a habit more companies should have.


I'm hoping for some cool demos at SIGGRAPH even if it's not released by then because SIGGRAPH this year is in my neighborhood!

In Houdini 20.5.445, I've started getting this error recently. Every time I start up Houdini now; I think the only changes were a windows update and new nVidia drivers; there's no new hardware or anything like that. I even uninstalled and re-installed 445, and no dice. The only 3rd party renderer I have installed is RenderMan, which I've been working with for several weeks without any problems like this.

Any idea as to what might be causing this?

I'm also wondering if it's related to Houdini's new behavior of crashing my computer regularly; now I can't select the contents of a dialog in a the attributes panel without a BSOD.

Any suggestions? I'm dead in the water right now.

How does that work with the biomes tools? Would I then create the points for the tree scatter and then feed that into an instancer in Solaris?

My first attempts using the instancer in Solares haven't produced any results so far. I proabbly have something not set up correctly.

Should I put the biomes scatter and instance network into the LOP instancer?

I had forgotten that you can build a node network inside that node, so I haven't tried doing that yet.