I know nothing about Houdini.
Is there a chance that your machine had the Maya 2016SP1 update recently?
There´s some noise about Maya2016SP1 giving problems with scenes that worked
fine in Maya 2016 before. It´s always a good idea to delete the Maya
user preferences
(or rename the iamthisuser>my documents>maya>2016 folder, then have
fresh prefs
generated for you).
I´d check the alembic file written, for changes in the exporter or
alembic version.
Then I´d see if I can render the scene with alembic but no fur, then
only fur, etc.
I´d also swap the alembic in a scene that worked, just to see if it´s
that. No fur, with fur.
Recreate the fur cache if the alembic renders in that scene.
Could be something simple like running out of disk space for fur caching
after sim or
something OS´ish, with read&write permissions.
Recently, I had a file directory created in Linux on an external drive
that ran fine for me
both on Linux and Windows until I tried to open that directory on
another machine,
with some user rights woes kicking in...
Sounds like a nice project with potentially good results.
The devil always kills you with what you love.
If you don´t care, you won´t have such problems...
Am 25.06.2015 um 23:33 schrieb Gerbrand Nel:
Hey guys
I'm in deep shit right now.
Tomorrow is deadline and my scene refuses to render.
I'm rendering fur on characters animated in maya.
All animations gets exported as alembic files for me to fur and render
in houdini.
I've rendered 9 shots with almost no problems, but the last shot just
keeps crashing.
Where do I start trouble shooting?
Here is what I've done so far
I've changed the sampling up and down.
Changed the tile size up and down by factors of 8
I've changed the tile order
I've even rebuilt the scene from scratch based on a scene that renders
fine.
I've created new cameras and deleted the alembic cameras.
This is my first "real" job in houdini, and allot is riding on this. I
had to convince allot of people that they can trust me to deliver this
job in houdini.
Help my dumb-ass please!!
G
Here is a error log from one of the crashed frames:
.........................
PROGRESS: 0.54/1
PROGRESS: 0.55/1
PROGRESS: 0.56/1
PROGRESS: 0.57/1
PROGRESS: 0.58/1
PROGRESS: 0.59/1
PROGRESS: 0.60/1
PROGRESS: 0.61/1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini
14.0.361\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hq_render_from_hip.py", line 4, in
<module>
hqlib.callFunctionWithHQParms(hqlib.renderFromHip)
File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini
14.0.361\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 1848, in
callFunctionWithHQParms
return function(**kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini
14.0.361\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 1011, in renderFromHip
_invokeRopAndCatchErrors(rop, project_name, frame, True)
File "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini
14.0.361\houdini\scripts\hqueue\hqlib.py", line 441, in
_invokeRopAndCatchErrors
raise e
hou.OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Error: Command Exit Code: -1073741819
