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Hi johnnycore,

Yes for my flood scene i used VDB meshworkflow, i notice if you have flat surface its little hard to get clean mesh, you need some smooth filtering, but for flood, waterfall stuff mesh was fine.

I'm meshing a pretty flat surface right now, and I found that using Gaussian (Smooth 1 to 2) instead of Laplacian Flow can yield very smooth surfaces by smoothing out uneven details.

I also ran into this problem last night after updating to 10.6.7 from 10.6.5 on a MacBook Air with Nvidia GeForce 320M.

The viewport would freeze for a few seconds prior to every other tumble/dolly/pan action; TAB menu froze for a few seconds before it fully displayed (before that, a blank rectangle). Shelf tools (primitives, particles) took up to 20 seconds to create the object in the viewport.

I ended up rolling back to 10.6.6 by reinstalling Mac OSX and the 10.6.6 Combo Update (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1349) [support.apple.com] manually and it's working great now.

I went with the reinstall because I haven't had this MacBook for too long and everything is already backed up. Reinstalling OSX may not be an option for everyone so please use caution if you were to try this yourself.

Here is the MacBook's spec for reference:

MacBook Air 3,2 (Late 2010)
2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 320M with 256 MB RAM
OSX 10.6.6
Tested with Houdini 11.0.547 and 11.0.701

Apologies for the cross-post from Odforce:

In trying to install HQueue on 3 nodes for a test, I ran into a python issue that looks a lot like this:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com…pic&t=15449 [sidefx.com]

I have succeeded in installing and starting hqueue server on a CentOS 4 32-bit machine with python 2.5 compiled from source.
I have 3 nodes that I'm trying to use as hqclients. All 3 nodes running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 with python 2.5 compiled from source.

Using from the HQueue web interface correctedly installed the ~/hqclient directory on each of the nodes.
However attempts of starting the hqclientd daemon ends up in failure like so:
hquser@hatake:~/hqclient> ./hqclientd start
Starting HQ client processTraceback (most recent call last):
File “./hqnode.py”, line 32, in <module>
h = hashlib.new(“sha”)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py”, line 84, in __py_new
return __get_builtin_constructor(name)(string)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py”, line 77, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError, “unsupported hash type”
ValueError: unsupported hash type
ERROR: Could not start HQ client process.
FAILED
Going through the thread, this issue appears to be platform-related.
How would I get around this python error? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.