I have updated to the latest release for 17.5 and everything seem to work except for the textures i.e. Standard Surface.
Thank you,
Steve
Thanks for reporting, can you please confirm which version of your operating system you are using?
work like a charm here, Do you have the correct path in Houdini.env file?
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Here are the env file settings (I changed them absolute reference):
PATH = "$PATH;C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\scripts\bin" HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173;&"
I noticed that there was a missing ";":
PATH = "$PATH;C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\scripts\bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173;&"
Here is the corrected houdini.env file
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&"
@Steven Shook
Had this problem today and found that the Game Development Toolset variable somehow conflicts with the Arnold variables. So, just by moving this Game Development Toolset variable and placing it before Arnold variables, I was able to get rid of this conflict.
Don;t know anything about the technical part of it, but now it works fine.
Hope this helps.
In the console I get very different results then before:
00:00:00 274MB | log started Tue Mar 19 18:08:08 2019 00:00:00 274MB | Arnold 5.2.2.1 [2dff6c07] windows icc-17.0.2 oiio-2.1.0 osl-1.11.0 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.0.3.513 rlm-12.4.2 2019/01/10 05:42:47 00:00:00 274MB | running on Puget-171184, pid=21016 00:00:00 275MB | 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz (36 cores, 72 logical) with 65420MB 00:00:00 275MB | Nvidia driver version 419.17 00:00:00 275MB | GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1080 @ 1733MHz (compute 6.1) with 8192MB (6268MB available) 00:00:00 275MB | GPU 1: GeForce GTX 1080 @ 1733MHz (compute 6.1) with 8192MB (8079MB available) 00:00:00 275MB | GPU 2: GeForce GTX 1080 @ 1733MHz (compute 6.1) with 8192MB (8079MB available) 00:00:00 275MB | GPU 3: GeForce GTX 1080 @ 1733MHz (compute 6.1) with 8192MB (8079MB available) 00:00:00 275MB | Windows 8 Professional (version 6.2, build 9200) 00:00:00 275MB | soft limit for open files raised from 512 to 2048 00:00:00 275MB | 00:00:00 275MB | [htoa_op] Begin registration ... 00:00:00 275MB | loading plugins from C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/plugins ... 00:00:00 275MB | alembic_proc.dll: alembic uses Arnold 5.2.2.1 00:00:00 275MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte uses Arnold 5.2.2.1 00:00:00 275MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_filter uses Arnold 5.2.2.1 00:00:00 275MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_manifest_driver uses Arnold 5.2.2.1 00:00:00 275MB | htoa_mandelbulb_proc.dll: mandelbulb uses Arnold 5.2.2.1 00:00:00 275MB | loaded 5 plugins from 3 lib(s) in 0:00.01 00:00:00 275MB | loading plugins from C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/plugins ... 00:00:00 275MB | no plugins loaded 00:00:00 275MB | loading plugins from C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/plugins ... 00:00:00 276MB | no plugins loaded 00:00:00 276MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/cameras.mtd 00:00:00 276MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/lights.mtd 00:00:00 276MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/operators.mtd 00:00:00 276MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/options.mtd 00:00:00 276MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shaders.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shapes.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/cameras.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/lights.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/operators.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/options.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shaders.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shapes.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/cameras.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/lights.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/operators.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/options.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shaders.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/arnold/metadata/shapes.mtd 00:00:00 277MB | [rop_operators] Registering operators ... 00:00:00 277MB | [rop_operators] operator registration done. 00:00:00 277MB | [rop_operators] Registering operators ... 00:00:00 277MB | [rop_operators] operator registration done. 00:00:00 277MB | [htoa_op] End registration. 00:00:00 277MB | 00:00:00 277MB | releasing resources 00:00:00 273MB | Arnold shutdown [htoa] HTOA environment variable already set to C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173 [htoa] HTOA environment variable already set to C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173
Sincerely do you read what I wrote to you?
There is an error in your Path
PATH = "$PATH;C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\scripts\bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Users\Steven\htoa\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173\htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173;&"
Here is the corrected Houdini.env file
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&"
I did read you notes above about the Games Devleoment Tools and the config information. I then copied and pasted that information in to the env file. I then sent you the my results just before you last answer.
I now copied and pasted your last env statements above into the env file and now I get this. Also the missing shader material nodes problem is back again.
[htoa] HTOA environment variable already set to C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173 [htoa] HTOA environment variable already set to C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173
I have attached the env file (I did have to change its extension to txt for your system).
I was right you are not reading because I never talk about GameDevToolset!
anyway can you see the difference between this "/" and this "\" ?
Copy/Past theses lines into your houdini.env file
PATH =
"$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&"
You are incorrect about reading yours as I did read it, but saw the one after it from Vital Skib and used that one. Sorry my mistake. Not sure is who and who is representing Arnold for the answers.
My env file now looks like this.
#HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE = 1 # GAMES DEVELOPMENT TOOLSET #HOUDINI_PATH = $HOUDINI_PATH;$APPDATA\SideFX\GameDevToolset\17.5\1.131;& #PATH = $APPDATA\SideFX\GameDevToolset\17.5\1.131\bin;$PATH #Redshift, HtoA & Octane In #HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2 #PATH = "$PATH;C:\ProgramData\Redshift\bin;C:\Users\Steven\Documents\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_Win64\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_17.5.173_Win64\bin;$PATH;" #HOUDINI_PATH ="C:\ProgramData\Redshift\Plugins\Houdini\17.5.173;C:\Users\Steven\Documents\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_Win64\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_17.5.173_Win64;&" #Redshift, HtoA & Octane Out #PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;" #HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&" PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;" HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&" ## QUIXEL FIRST PATH IS NEW LIVE LINK## HOUDINI_PATH = "$HOUDINI_PATH;F:\Megascans\support\plugins\houdini\1.9.4\MSLiveLink;&"
Ok
make it simple
For GameDevToolset
1- create an empty houdini.env file in C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5
2- create a folder "GameDevToolset" in C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5
3- Cut what inside GameDevToolset/17.5/1.131 and put all the files in "GameDevToolset"
4- remove SideFX in %APPDATA
For Redshift
1- Create a folder "Redshift" in C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5
2- Copy/Paste all the files from C:\ProgramData\Redshift\Plugins\Houdini\17.5.173 to Redshift you just created
Here is the HtoA path (again this "/" and this "\" are different !)
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&
add redshift path, to the existing path
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/bin"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5/redshift;&
add GameDevToolset to the existing path
Final Path
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/bin" HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5/redshift;C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5/GameDevToolset;&"
With just 02 lines you get HtoA, redshift, GameDevToolset
You get the idea for the rest
Cheers
@Steven Shook Everything in your .env file is commented out:
#HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE = 1 #GAMES DEVELOPMENT TOOLSET #HOUDINI_PATH = $HOUDINI_PATH;$APPDATA\SideFX\GameDevToolset\17.5\1.131;& #PATH = $APPDATA\SideFX\GameDevToolset\17.5\1.131\bin;$PATH #Redshift, HtoA & Octane In #HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2 #PATH = "$PATH;C:\ProgramData\Redshift\bin;C:\Users\Steven\Documents\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_Win64\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_17.5.173_Win64\bin;$PATH;" #HOUDINI_PATH ="C:\ProgramData\Redshift\Plugins\Houdini\17.5.173;C:\Users\Steven\Documents\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_Win64\Octane_2018.1.0.7_Houdini_17.5.173_Win64;&" #Redshift, HtoA & Octane Out #PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;" #HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&" PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin;" HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&" # # QUIXEL FIRST PATH IS NEW LIVE LINK# # HOUDINI_PATH = "$HOUDINI_PATH;F:\Megascans\support\plugins\houdini\1.9.4\MSLiveLink;&"
What @rachid Hadj Abderrahmane posted is right, but I always put HtoA last in PATH so I changed it to this:
PATH = "$PATH;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/bin;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin" HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5/redshift;C:/Users/Steven/Documents/houdini17.5/GameDevToolset;&"
If you still have problems, start with the simplest houdini.env possible:
# htoa config start PATH = "$PATH;D:/solidangle/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.0.416/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin" HOUDINI_PATH = "D:/solidangle/htoa/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-17.0.416/htoa-3.3.0_rf4b10e6_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&" # htoa config end
Make sure that works. Then start adding the other plugins, one at a time.
Stephen,
I commented out all other plugins for testing purposes when ever I upgrade or add functionality to the env file.
I upgraded to 4.0.0 yesterday to see if that would help and it didn't as I still have the same problem.
I have standard installation of Houdini and Arnold and the Houdini.env is:
# htoa config start
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&"
# htoa config end
Thank you for taking the time to look into this,
Steve
@Steven Shook Ok, that is how it should be.
You still have the same problem with the render view, but now you also don't see any of the Arnold shaders, right?
The missing shaders is a problem with the environment.
Can you post your Houdini_Info (in Houdini, click Help > About > Show Details) ?
Still can't render to the render view in fact can't do anything. I don't see most of the shader nodes.
You have 02 errors
First error in HOUDINI_PATH: This "&" in the middle of your path, so just remove it
HOUDINI_PATH C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173;&;F:/Megascans/support/plugins/houdini/2.0/MSLiveLink;C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173;&
Second error in HTOA_PLUGIN_PATH: repeated 03 times (Only One path needed)
C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/arnold\plugins;
C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/arnold\plugins;
C:/Users/Steven/htoa/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/htoa-4.0.0_r33d20a4_houdini-17.5.173/arnold\plugins