well, this is a qoute from console at the end of installation:
Adding Files/Side Font Files/Side is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding Effects Font Effects is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding Software/Houdini Font Software/Houdini is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding 8.0.458/bin/gfont.exe Font 8.0.458/bin/gfont.exe is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding -Sq Font -Sq is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding -o Font -o is an invalid font (or already installed) Adding CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.458/houdini/fonts/font.index Font CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.458/houdini/fonts/font.index is an invalid font (or already installed) Saving font table to: CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.458/houdini/fonts/font.index
when I click close, and finish the installation, it looks like everything is in right place, but when I start houdini I get another wierd message: houdini.exe load failed. No such file or directory. Continue? I click continue then, and everything is ok, I can work like nothing was wrong. So I feel like something wierd is going on.
its windows xp based system 2ghz intel centrino 2gb of ram ati x600 256mb with omega drivers
I found the cure Thanks to 3D Buzz and Houdini forum. The glitch was in this:
THE FOLLOWING IS ABSOLUTELY THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF GENERAL PROBLEMS WITH HOUDINI ON WINDOWS. Houdini has problems with spaces in the directory structure Houdini is firmly rooted in the Unix world, and therefore spaces are not allowed in directory names. What Houdini does is truncate directory and file names to an 8.3 format. Any folder name with a space in the first 6 chracters is a potential problem for Houdini.
I just did a custom install, and changed path from c:\program files\blabla to c:\Houdini\ and none of mentioned errors occured.
more on 3D Buzz topic made by mr. MCronin here [3dbuzz.com]
It doesn't make sense though I've *always* installed Houdini to the default paths with spaces and have never had a problem. This was even before SP2 on WinXP.
Do you have a administrative access from the account that you installed Houdini on? Do you have a non-standard install location for where your Windows is installed? Do you have the SystemRoot and/or WinDir environment variables point correctly to where your Windows is installed?
you say “this is a qoute from console at the end of installation:”…if you're on windows are you not just double-clicking the install exe? I ususally change the path to XhoudiniX.x/ just to avoid the spaces issue…
my win installation is on e:\windows instead of c:\windows but all env. var. are correct, I check them several times, and I have both maya and Prman installed and working fine. And yes, I am the only user so I have administrative rights. Only non standard things are that I change variable for temp folder so I don't have 3 different folders but only one c:\temp.
@actor, well that was strange to me also, I double-click the instalation file and just before final screen appears console window pops up in down right corner with quoted message. after I hit close. instalation done, blabla, is here, and I just hit finish, and that's it. next thing is when I start houdini error is there :? when I saw houdini.exe load failed I suposed everything will crash, but no.. when continue was hit, everything worked just fine… except the strange feeling in my stomack
Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 8.0.458/houdini/fonts/font.index
