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Hi,

I have a problem with Houdini (Indie, 14.0.258) on my laptop, where polygons appear invisible in the viewport when I use a shaded mode (both for flat shaded or smooth shaded).

My laptop is a Surface Pro 3, and I have installed all windows updates.

Any ideas why this is happening, and what I could do to fix it?

Another oddity I am experiencing, is that the viewport is initially unresponsive when booting up Houdini. Only when I select another tab (like Animation Editor etc.), and back again to Scene View, it comes alive. I don't know if this issue could be related to the invisible polygons.

I hope someone can help, thank you

Hi,

I just installed Houdini Indie on my laptop (running Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit), and when I start Houdini I get the error below.

Anyone know why this is happening? Many thanks.


Could not start SAS web responder:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 2, in <module>
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.258/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 1685, in ensure_webresponder_server_is_running
_web_responder_api = webresponder.start_server(WebResponderAPI)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.258/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\webresponder.py”, line 26, in start_server
logger = _create_logger()
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.258/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\webresponder.py”, line 69, in _create_logger
hutil.file.ensureDirExists(sas.localassets.asset_store_dir())
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.258/houdini/python2.7libs\sas\localassets.py”, line 713, in asset_store_dir
hou.homeHoudiniDirectory() + “/asset_store”)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.258/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 40047, in homeHoudiniDirectory
return _hou.homeHoudiniDirectory(*args)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 17: invalid start byte

Thanks for your replies - that sounds good

Regarding the .hip/.hipnc stuff is that just to make the files from Apprentice incompatible with the FX commercial edition?