Hi,

Trying to go through the 3dBuzz character rigging tutorials.

On the IK section there is a compiled Python script you have to install and then call via the import command

Location is C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 16.0.671\houdini\scripts and they have a folder for python. In my install of Houdini 16 there is no Python folder. If I put the script in that location and try to run the code I am given the warning

no module named techrigvolume1

Not sure if things have changed since they created these as it was a while back.

Where am I supposed to install the script?

Kind regards,

Duncan

Hi
(on Windows)You can put the script either in
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\houdini16.0\Scripts\python
or
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\houdini16.0\python2.7libs
if these folders do not exist, simply create them
Well the script on my Computer is found, unfortunately i am getting an error
“ImportError: Bad magic number”

I also get “ImportError: Bad magic number”

Can anybody shed some light on this issue?

Cheers,

Duncan

I downloaded PYCharm and wrote the python script there. Make sure to use 2.7 not python version 3+

Houdini runs python 2.7 and the old code was made with an older version so that was why I got the Bad magic number remark.

Make sure to add

import hou

Each time a hou node is called in the code. Following the tutorial was ok once this was sorted

Script added. Hope it helps

Seems endless the pitfalls of doing this…

going through the 3DBuzz stretchy IK tutorial and having issues with the end section

stretchRatioParm = hou.FloatParmTemplate('stretchRatio', ‘Stretch Ratio’, 1)
startBone.addSpareParmTuple(stretchRatioParm, (“Stretchy IK”, ))

Issue seems to be with these lines.

Error is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “stretchyIK”, line 85, in <module>
File “stretchyIK”, line 14, in techrig_stretchyIK_Tool
File “stretchyIK”, line 54, in techrig_stretchyIK
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.671/houdini/python2.7libs\houpythonportion.py”, line 44, in addSpareParmTuple
_addParmTuple(self, parm_template, in_folder, create_missing_folders)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.671/houdini/python2.7libs\houpythonportion.py”, line 71, in _addParmTuple
parm_template_group, in_folder, create_missing_folders)
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.671/houdini/python2.7libs\houpythonportion.py”, line 93, in _ensureFolderExists
“Invalid containing folder name(s)”)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Invalid containing folder name(s)

Would love if somebody could explain this?