Hi, I am very new to Houdini and am trying to be able to light scenes for my capstone film using arnold. The problem I am having is whenever I open a scene I get all these bad node errors and am unable to load textures and such. Here are the errors I get (only a portion because the menu extends down further)
And here is the log from Houdini Console:
00:00:00 329MB | log started Fri Apr 24 11:47:03 2020
00:00:00 329MB | Arnold 6.0.2.1 [088e32fd] windows icc-17.0.2 oiio-2.1.4 osl-1.11.0 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.1.1.118 rlm-12.4.2 optix-6.5.0 2020/03/06 10:19:18
00:00:00 330MB | running on DESKTOP-DOF3C0B, pid=9360
00:00:00 330MB | 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (8 cores, 16 logical) with 32716MB
00:00:00 330MB | NVIDIA driver version 441.8 (Optix 60600)
00:00:00 330MB | GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER @ 1830MHz (compute 7.5) with 6144MB (5542MB available) (NVLink:0)
00:00:00 330MB |
00:00:00 330MB | soft limit for open files raised from 512 to 2048
00:00:00 330MB |
00:00:00 330MB | [htoa_op] Begin registration ...
00:00:00 330MB | loading plugins from C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/plugins ...
00:00:00 330MB | alembic_proc.dll: alembic uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 330MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 330MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_filter uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 330MB | cryptomatte.dll: cryptomatte_manifest_driver uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 330MB | htoa_mandelbulb_proc.dll: mandelbulb uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 333MB | usd_proc.dll: usd uses Arnold 6.0.2.1
00:00:00 333MB | loaded 6 plugins from 4 lib(s) in 0:00.07
00:00:00 333MB | loading plugins from C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/plugins ...
00:00:00 333MB | no plugins loaded
00:00:00 333MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/cameras.mtd
00:00:00 333MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/lights.mtd
00:00:00 333MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/operators.mtd
00:00:00 334MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/options.mtd
00:00:00 334MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/shaders.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/shapes.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/cameras.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/lights.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/operators.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/options.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/shaders.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] Loading metadata file: C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/arnold/metadata/shapes.mtd
00:00:00 336MB | [rop_operators] Registering operators ...
00:00:00 336MB | [rop_operators] operator registration done.
00:00:00 336MB | [rop_operators] Registering operators ...
00:00:00 336MB | [rop_operators] operator registration done.
00:00:00 336MB | [htoa_op] End registration.
00:00:00 336MB |
00:00:00 336MB | releasing resources
00:00:00 334MB | Arnold shutdown
00:00:00 76MB | Arnold 6.0.2.1 [088e32fd] windows icc-17.0.2 oiio-2.1.4 osl-1.11.0 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.1.1.118 rlm-12.4.2 optix-6.5.0 2020/03/06 10:19:18
00:00:00 77MB | authorizing with license manager: user ...
[htoa] HTOA environment variable already set to C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391
And here are the environment settings:
#
# Houdini Environment Settings
#
# The contents of this file are read into the environment
# at startup. They will override any existing entries in
# the environment.
#
# The syntax is one entry per line as follows:
# VAR = VALUE
#
# Values may be quoted
# VAR = "VALUE"
#
# Values may be empty
# VAR =
#
# Example:
#
# HOUDINI_NO_SPLASH = 1
# htoa config start
PATH = "$PATH;C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION}/scripts/bin"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Users/brewe/htoa/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-18.0.391/htoa-5.1.1_r126b954_houdini-${HOUDINI_VERSION};&"
# htoa config end
I have absolutely no idea what's wrong and/or how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
How do you open the scene? By doubl-clicking it?
Start Houdini from the Houdini Command Line Tools, then open the scene.
That worked 🙂 I feel kinda silly haha. Now my problem is I get this black render screen and none of the geo shows up with any arnold light. I have the camera set to my shot cam and have tried adjusting a few different lights.