drukpa

Even if this might be solved, I am contemplating a custom Z pass creation, as exercised in Maya here:
http://asephei.blogspot.com/2011/10/maya-how-to-manually-generate-custom.html [asephei.blogspot.com]

I presume it can be implemented in vops, (for <H12 users). I haven't read it thoroughly yet, but seeing the network, it seems like a simple operation.

Nevertheless, the great work of SYmek has to be pointed out and acknowledged

I have the opposite problem - of course it is logical, but still I have to find some solution:

I made a scene in H12 on the workstation. And on two older pcs I have H10, and would like to utilize those machines for additional rendering, but H10 would not read even encapsulated scripts (like shop networks to vop type).
H12 (nor H11) cannot be installed on those pcs, for system requirements are not sufficient for newer versions.

Is there any way to export the H12 scene so H10 could read the majority of it (I don't mind the new parameters that would be lost - I am just concerned about shading, lighting and geometry, and have used standard nodes which are present in older versions)?

It would be too much to rebuild the scene from scratch in H10 just for this purpose.

Any ideas?

I also have the same problem (since spring 2009) when ATI decided to become the worst vendor ever. But it's just on my secondary laptop, although I would like to have it fixed with newer kernel and distro.

Unfortunately there are no possibilities except maybe one (which I might try if I get time) : to install new distro, and then to downgrade kernel to 2.6.27 - which is the latest kernel supported by catalyst for our late legacy cards. However, there's 50-50% that it will work (I succeeded that with Suse 11, but didn't have wlan on it).

On the other hand, if you install Ubuntu 8.04, or like me 8.10 - you will have your Houdini running, but the system might have serious faults - I am not able to install anything with dependencies (anything apart from manual installations) because the 8.10 repositories are dead for a long time. Fortunately 8.04 is LTS, so I hope you'll have luck if they maintained all repos. I didn't bother because, again, my wlan doesn't work on 8.04 (there's always something missing on the low-end hardware, it's just a matter of what you're ready to sacrifice).

Anyway, for the record, please inform here about the outcome of 8.04, if you install it.