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Houdini Packages?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:13:30 GMT

Hi,

Anyone can advice how I can use Houdini Packages for Arnold?

I have tried many different approaches without success. One example below:

Arnold works normally in the env file, but in packages ROP properties are empty, and it doesn't render (traceback errors). Although the shelf is there.

{"path" : "C:/Users/billk/htoa/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-18.0.416/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin",
env" : [        
{
"HOUDINI_PATH" : "C:/Users/billk/htoa/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-18.0.416/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}"
},
{
"PATH" : { method" : "prepend",
"value" : ["C:/Users/billk/htoa/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-18.0.416/htoa-5.2.0_r0292f07_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin"]
}
}
]
}

Thanks!

Re: Houdini Packages?

Stephen.Blair — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:30:27 GMT

Check https://answers.arnoldrenderer.com/questions/20802/how-do-i-install-arnold-using-the-new-packages-sys.html

I tried to fix your formatting. I didn't change anything except whitespace.
why path and HOUDINI_PATH ?

Re: Houdini Packages?

Slava_91 — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:49:41 GMT

Try this

{
"enable": true,
"env": [
{
"HTOA_DIR": "C:/htoa/5.2"
},
{
"HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR": "2"
},
{
"HOUDINI_PATH": "$HTOA_DIR"
},
{
"PATH": "$HTOA_DIR/scripts/bin"
}
]
}