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I have a set up with identical meshes and networks. Bakes high to low with Simple Game Baker. The problem is that the non-commercial version of Houdini renders the maps out fine (albeit low res and watermarked), while the commercial version introduces a bunch of garbage. Images attached.
I tried addressing it with a cage, bias and ray settings to no avail.
What is it about commercial that would introduce this? Something with Mantra?

Our license for FX is temp, as a result we don't have our Mantra licenses yet. I'll let you know when we do and if that fixes it for us.

We're running into this as well.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<stdin>”, line 1, in <module>
File “opdefSop/sop_simple_baker?PythonModule”, line 4, in render
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.405/houdini/python2.7libs\houpythonportion.py”, line 3239, in decorator
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.405/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 46461, in render
return _hou.RopNode_render(*args, **kwargs)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.