hidden line ghost shading in houdini fx

[Terry_M_]

I'm having a problem getting shaded views in Houdini 14.0.36

Dell 3847 quad core intel HD 4600, driver of 7/27/2015.

The only way I get any shading on a brand-new object is

'hidden line ghost'. For an object with uvtextures- vertex shading I can get 'smooth wire shaded' also, everything else is wireframe.

I have no idea what those numbers are, posting on Houdini Forums is a waste of time. I've read about the 4080 driver may work better,

the link to older drivers is dead though.

[Michael_C_Intel2]

Hi Terry,

I need to check with some people to get help with your question. I am will get back to you soon.

-Michael

[Michael_C_Intel2]

Hi Terry,

Can I get the hip file? We can try to repro the error.

-Michael

[Terry_M_]

Your forum is 386 speed, mail me at hike1213atgmail.com, I PM'd the link but no idea if it went through.

[Michael_C_Intel2]

Hi Terry,

We were delayed by Siggraph and IDF preparations but we finally had a chance to look into this.

We didn’t notice any difference between NVIDIA and our Intel HD 5200 system, using driver 10.18.15.4256 (7/17/2015) on a Win10 (64bit) machine.

First thing we noticed were some missing files:

The different rendering modes rendered correctly for us. You may want to change your viewport draw distance, that may be why you don't see anything. (http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini14.0/ref/windows/displayopts_3d).

The numbers you asked about are the UV coordinates:

Hope this helps you.

-Michael

[Terry_M_]

I'm getting shading in shaded wireframe view. Those aren't missing files, just missing parameters. I know it's not your area but

I'd like to get rid of the UV number display and if you go spacebar-5 UV view there should be a checkerboard 'uv_grid_grey.pic'

displaying.

[Michael_C_Intel2]

Hi Terry,

True it is not our area, I have asked around and no one has a lot of experience with Houdini. One of our internal tech artists (who doesn't use Houdini unfortunately) suggested this site as a place you may get the help you need: http://tech-artists.org/

-Michael