Houdini v20.5?

[Piminski]

Has anyone had success using Earthmesh in Houdini 20.5?

Here is what I found. In 20.5 Earthmesh does start the download process but then crashes as its building the mesh. I even tried using v20.0 to download and cache geometry but even that crashed when I tried importing the file in v20.5, this I did find surprising as I assumed this would be an adequate workaround. Its not a super big problem as v20.0 is fine to use but it would be nice as the new features in 20.5 are quite lovely.

Thank you for all efforts.

[xjorma]

I personally use with 20.5 and I don't have any issues.
That are the issue your have?
Sometime errors are location dependent. What parameters (GPS, dist...) you are using?

[Piminski]

That is good news I guess, the issue must be on my end

I tried using different python versions both 3.11 and 3.10. Reinstalling the additional python packages, Rebooting. I still have the issue described above.

I used these setting:

It sucessfully downloads the meshes and images into the cache folder but when the mesh usually loads Houdini crashes.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

[Piminski]

@xjorma What version of Houdini are you using?

I have tried 20.5.278 Py3.11 and 20.5.370 Py3

[Piminski]

I just tried 20.5.370 as well, same issue: downloads meshes then crahses when it tries to load them into the scene... It passes the "GLTF" phase and "Executing VEX" .... dammit.

I redownloaded the install folder and tested on the provided EarthMesh_Test.hip file, same result

[Piminski]

Solved! It was the limit resolution setting! FFS :)

The new install did reverted to these old settings!

[Piminski]

Solved

[Piminski]

I spoke too soon. The resolution fix made it so 20.5 would load filecaches saved out from 20.0. the regular workflow in 20.5 still crashes for me :(

This is progress at it is a workaround I can deploy by loading in 20.0 and then caching it. Not ideal though