I have been getting these warnings at startup. They are related to Maxon's redgiant universe. Any idea why they are popping up?

I didn't touch anything in my redgiant installation. And I don't think they are related to Houdini. They are only used in video editing and post production apps like Davinci resolve, After Effects, Premiere Pro etc.

How to remove these warnings?

They only started when I updated to Houdini 20.5.584



To make matters weirder, I never made this folder "D:\rg\GitLab-Runner", and it doesn't even exist in my machine,that's being mentioned in the error log popup.

Disable the OFX path that way you prevent COPs from loading installed OFX plugins

HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH = 1


https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/copernicus/openfx.html#setting-up-the-openfx-environment-variable [www.sidefx.com]

sepu
Disable the OFX path that way you prevent COPs from loading installed OFX plugins

HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH = 1


https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/copernicus/openfx.html#setting-up-the-openfx-environment-variable [www.sidefx.com]

Thank you! This fixed it!

I had the same issues and this parameter in the Houdin.env fix the problem ---- for my point of view should be also nice to Understand Why we have to insert this command: what is the real root cause.
Thanks.
Claudio

Hi,
I have this very same issue with Houdini 21 but I'm not sure what steps you have to do to fix it.
I followed these steps from the link but replaced step 3 with "HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH = 1", resulting in the following steps, still it doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong? Could you please Confirma the rigght steps?

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1-Choose Start ▸ Edit environment variables for your account.
2-Click New.
3-Set Variable name to "HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH = 1".
4-Set Variable value to C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins.
5-Click OK.
6-Log out and then log back into Houdini to use the OpenFX plug-ins.

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Many thanks

Yes help!!!!

It's not work for me. Here is my ways to solve that issue:
1. Check OFX folder
Ex: C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins

2. Copy folder plugin make trouble to other place for backup
3. Delete that plugin folder ( ex: Red giant Universe )

Launch Houdini againt and check that plugin. It's work for me.
Hope it's helpful

qtt.cun
It's not work for me. Here is my ways to solve that issue:
1. Check OFX folder
Ex: C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins

2. Copy folder plugin make trouble to other place for backup
3. Delete that plugin folder ( ex: Red giant Universe )

Launch Houdini againt and check that plugin. It's work for me.
Hope it's helpful

Well, that is not a real solution.

Maxon Universe plugins are paid plugins that I intend to use in other programs such as After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. So I will leave the plugins there and hope for someone to explain the right steps to disable the OFX paths just for Houdini.

Can someone please explain how to disable the OFX paths just for Houdini??

sepu
Disable the OFX path that way you prevent COPs from loading installed OFX plugins

HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH = 1


https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/copernicus/openfx.html#setting-up-the-openfx-environment-variable [www.sidefx.com]

Sepu, or any other member who succesfully fixed it. Could you please explain, step by step how to disable the OFX paths just for Houdini?? How to disable the OFX path to prevent COPs from loading installed OFX plugins?? I tried the steps in the link and it didn0t work for me.

Please help!

The above instructions are a little confusing.

This worked for me:

1. Open Environment Variables window (Start menu, start typing "edit system" and "edit the system environment variables" should pop up as an option)

2. Click on Environment Variables button (bottom right)

3. Create a new System variable (Bottom "New" button)

4. Variable name should be: HOUDINI_DISABLE_OPENFX_DEFAULT_PATH

5. Variable value should be: 1

6. Hit OK

7. Houdini should now launch without OFX errors