Howdy everyone,

Trying to figure out the new top nodes, and I'm trying to get the imagemagick node to work, but it keeps failing with an unknown error: “Workitem imagemagick21 failed”

I tried going through the help section of the node and running the tutorial example, and if I tried to cook the final node in the Top's system, the same error occurs in that, making me wonder if I even have imagemagick installed via houdini?

Hello,
as far as I understand you have to install imagemagick yourself and then reference the path in houdini.

I am having the same issue. I have installed Imagemagick and edited the houdini.env with this:

PDG_IMAGEMAGICK=“CProgram Files/ImageMagick-7.0.8-Q16/magick.exe”
PDG_FFMPEG=“CProgram Files/ImageMagick-7.0.8-Q16/ffmpeg.exe”

I still get a problem.

The Houdini help page is here:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/top/imagemagick.html#install [www.sidefx.com]

but I cannot seems to understand what I have done wrong…

Check out the PDG forum - someone there had the same issue.

just an FYI in the event that someone else ends up here. After I installed imagemagick I had to restart my houdini before the imagemagick node would work.