HtoA texture loading problem

[tura3311]

What is the reason I am getting this error when loading texture?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:/Users/tura3/htoa/htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.532/htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.532/scripts/python\htoa\texture.py", line 299, in imageFilenameCallback
    txAddJob(filename, color_space=hou.parm('color_space').evalAsString())
  File "C:/Users/tura3/htoa/htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.532/htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.532/scripts/python\htoa\texture.py", line 121, in txAddJob
    log.info('AiMakeTx {0} {1}'.format(tile, args))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

-CONSOLE
00:05:31   897MB WARNING | [htoa.colorspace] No arnold ROPs found with ar_color_space_singleton set, using rop /out/arnold1. Please ensure there is a a unique color space ROP.
00:07:56   919MB WARNING | [htoa.colorspace] No arnold ROPs found with ar_color_space_singleton set, using rop /out/arnold1. Please ensure there is a a unique color space ROP.
00:12:50   940MB WARNING | [htoa.colorspace] No arnold ROPs found with ar_color_space_singleton set, using rop /out/arnold1. Please ensure there is a a unique color space ROP.

[Stephen.Blair]

I think that Windows Error 32 is the problem.

https://www.google.com/search?q=windowserror+error+32

[thiago.ize · Accepted solution]

Maybe this is because of:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

So get rid of the non-ascii characters (ü in this case I think) and see if that fixes it?

[julian.hodgson]

• The warnings:

1. 00:05:31 897MB WARNING | [htoa.colorspace] No arnold ROPs found with ar_color_space_singleton set, using rop /out/arnold1. Please ensure there is a a unique color space ROP.

are coming from the fact that there isn't an Arnold ROP in the scene with the Color Space ROP checked:

This is used to indentify the ROP the defines the render color space for the TX conversion.

The error:

1. UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 28: ordinal not in range(128)

looks to be occurring because of an ü character being present somewhere. Is that coming from a filename?

We'll investigate making this robust to such paths, thanks for the feedback.

Meanwhile, is it possible to remove the umlaut from the path?