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Houdini Quick tip #06 (Don't use spaces)
🕑 Added 2018-10-13 11:32:54 +0000 UTC I faced alot of crashes while working on my previous post Money gun (Houdini 17 Vellum) and when I contacted Sidefx about it, one of their responses was and I quote:-"Please try not to put empty spaces in any file name in Houdini. Houdini was developed on a Linux OS, and thus does not handle spaces in names well. This sometimes causes odd crashes. For example, rename "Money gun-09.hiplc" to "Money_gun_09.hiplc" (hyphens are also a bad choice). Or rename "Money gun.ABC" to "Money_gun.ABC". "
Well at first I said they must be kidding a space can ruin my work, but I started removing those spaces from the Houdini file name and other assets being used, and to my surprise it stopped throwing any errors or crashes.
OMG what a space can do, also Varomix Wey on Housini Artists FB page advised that even the file path and folder names shouldn't have spaces.
Comments
Massimo Baita
Thank You very much.
Particle Skull
I had a similar problem when Mantra wasn't working if the file name had spaces, I guess it was on H15. I got traumatized and i'm not using spaces since that day ;) I also had problems with .. (2 dots) at folders names on gridmarkets. It looks like 2 dots is a command to go up one folder (or something like this) on linux
Spaces have always been bad form in production.
