Monty Tech Corner
This is my blog for solutions to technical problems relating to working with the nuances of the SCAD network at Montgomery Hall. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
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FLIP -> Solaris Workflow
A big challenge I had this week was converting the large flip cache to USD for use on the farm. USD ROPs would fail due to running out of RAM. The solution is to cache the USD data per frame and use a USD stitch clips ROP to create a template file that can be…
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TOPs Render Wedging in Arnold
Often times render tests of multiple versions of a shader are necessary. Instead of rendering test frames one at a time we can use a TOP network to speed up this process. IMPORTANT – For Arnold render ROPs to work inside a TOP net in 20.5 add the variable ‘HOUDINI_PATH’ to the parameter Unset Variables…
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Arnold for Houdini
Guide to enable htoa on Montgomery Hall linux machines