Who knows how to render USD in HtoA on the command line?
When I use htoa's kick command I get the following message.
Is the HTOA kick command still not available for USD?
[myname@mypc ~]$ kick -i /home/myname/test/usd/test.0001.usd -o /home/myname/test/arnold_husk/test.0001.exr
00:00:00 74MB | log started Mon Nov 23 16:21:59 2020
00:00:00 74MB | Arnold 6.1.0.0 [250260fb] linux clang-10.0.1 oiio-2.2.1 osl-1.11.6 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.1.1.118 rlm-12.4.2 optix-6.6.0 2020/10/27 10: 47:45
00:00:00 74MB | running on mypc, pid=119769
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00:00:00 75MB | [kick] command: kick -i /home/myname/test/usd/test.0001.usd -o /home/myname/test/arnold_husk/test.0001.exr
00:00:00 75MB | loading plugins from . ....
00:00:00 75MB | no plugins loaded
00:00:00 75MB ERROR | [scene] can't open scene file '/home/myname/test/usd/test.0001.usd', unknown format
00:00:00 75MB | releasing resources
00:00:00 75MB | Arnold shutdown
The usd file was exported using usd_rop, and we're making sure it's properly exported from Houdini's usdview.
I was able to render it using node.render() in the python module, but I don't want to do this because of the hbatch license.
Thank you.
kick can render USD files. I've tried with several different USD files, binary and ascii.
Thanks for the answer. Indeed I have seen a successful example with the kick installed in MAYA.
Have you ever tried with htoa?
kick is kick. The same kick is installed with all Arnold plugins.
I did kick several usd files exported from Houdini.
And the USD kitchen set.
Kick is a kick; I think so too...
I tried the command on the same USD file with MTOA 4.1.0 and HtoA 5.5.0.1 kicks, respectively, and found that MTOA's kick did not give an error that the format was unknown, the exr file was created and the render view was displayed.
However, we are going to continue to investigate as we are not getting the same results as the USD rendered images in HtoA.
@kohei hidaka
You need to add the -l flag to load the usd plugin
C:\Users\blairs>C:\solidangle\htoa-5.5.0.1_r45f2926_houdini-18.5.351\htoa-5.5.0.1_r45f2926_houdini-18.5.351\scripts\bin\kick.exe -v 5 -default_nodes all -dp -i C:\Users\blairs\Documents\HoudiniProjects\support\geo\test.1001.usd -l C:\solidangle\htoa\htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.566\htoa-5.4.0_r1db094a_houdini-18.0.566\arnold\plugins
It seems that the -l option was needed.
I was able to render successfully.
Thank you very much!