Hello,
I am trying to get arnold installed but running into some issues (houdini/solaris). To give a bit of context, I do also have vray installed and was getting issues rendering with vray when arnold was installed both renderers setup using the regular houdini.env (meaning both renderers loaded in houdini solaris. The issue I was getting was that arnold would render fine but vray would not - shaders wouldnt work somehow).
I did tests uninstalling Arnold and vray would work fine again (btw I am using houdini 19.5.435)
Therefor I did a bit of research and decided to move onto using packages with json configurations and see if that helps.
so this is what worked and what didn't (reason of my thread)
using packages arnold.json, I can see that vray now works (didnt change anything besides using json to load arnold vs env file) but I am running into some issues with arnold:
I can see the arnold tab on top of houdini, also arnold tab on lights etc. But when I try to bring a material into a material library arnold builder wont show which I guess its related to the ai.dll issue.
(current arnold installed version is: htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435_windows)
This is my current arnold.json file:
{
"env": [
{
"PATH": "C:\Users\User\htoa\htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435\htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435\scripts\bin",
"method": "append"
}
],
"path": "C:\Users\User\htoa\htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435\htoa-6.1.4.1_rc2f7eb9_houdini-19.5.435"
}
and I am getting this in houdini console:
Could not find ai.dll
OS error: Could not find module 'ai.dll' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax.
I did check and found that another user had a
similar ish issue and was related to
VC_redist.x64.exe not being installed. I checked the json path and it seems to be pointing to the right direction of the .dll but somehow not loading it? I did install vc_redistx64, restarted the machine and retry opening houdini but I do get the same missing ai.dll error.
As for the second issue when I try to open the license manager I am getting prompted with:
this application could not be initialized, no qt platform plugin.
Not sure if both are related or not honestly. Do you have any thoughts onto why this happens and how can I fix it? It is a big headache to try to make multiple renders work with houdini solaris seems like.
any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
-Manuel