Re: My second step in Houdini

2014-08-02 Thread David Saber
Excellent Max! Keep up the good work!

Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Jon Hunt
Hi List, Asked a thousand times before I'm sure. I have researched and having no Joy and could really do with some suggestions please. Soft 2014 SP2 - Scene opens at Uni on an identically specced HP workstation machine. I noticed my home machine (when the file did work) took about 20mins to load

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
try offloading all the ref models before loading the scene by editing the .scntoc file. Sent from my iPhone On 02-Aug-2014, at 7:51 pm, Jon Hunt jonathan.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, Asked a thousand times before I'm sure. I have researched and having no Joy and could really do with

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Stephen Blair
Enable Skip the loading of floating objects in the scene debugging preferences. Or try merging the scene into a new scene. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jon Hunt jonathan.m.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, Asked a thousand times before I'm sure. I have researched and having no Joy and could

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Jon Hunt
Thanks for the quick replies guys. Alok, I havent edited .scntoc files before. Having a look, would I alter the active resolution of each model to 0 the resave over the .scntoc file? Stephen, I have tried merging scenes and skip loading of floating objects option on and both together. Its

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
you can download the scntoc manager that I wrote. It is available as a stand alone application as well as a soft addon. you can get it from rray.de otherwise yes you need to set the resolution to 0 manually. Sent from my iPhone On 02-Aug-2014, at 8:23 pm, Jon Hunt jonathan.m.h...@gmail.com

RE: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Matt Lind
A scene size of 53 MB containing mostly referenced models indicates there is still a lot of data, such as animation (FCurves) or data applied on top of the referenced models in model deltas, still in the scene. the first thing to try is rolling back your scene to a previous version (including