I hit LOAD to bring up examples of simulations in the houdini apprentice version example files but it doesnt bring anything up. It asks me if I give permission to the local server and I accept but nothing happens. I have tried reloading and even hitting the launch key with no help. Is this something that the apprentice version doesnt allow? Or am I doing something wrong? Thank you.

Hairston

I've had the same problem and setting the windows environment variable:

HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE = 1

solved the problem for me.

Good luck!

Here's another solution that worked for me on Windows Vista.

Houdini installes default to “C:\Program Files\…”, and the space in the filepath caused a problem.

My solution was to install Houdini to C:\Houdini and not to the default path with spaces in.

After that example files loaded without problems.

/M

Thank you both for the helpful responses. I will try these 2 configurations when I get home from work. I appreciate it very much.

Thanks,

Hairston

Soothsayer
I've had the same problem and setting the windows environment variable:

HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE = 1

solved the problem for me.

Good luck!

Hi Soothsayer,

Could you explain where you located this and how you did it please?

Thanks!

hairston630

Soothsayer
Good luck!

Hi Soothsayer,

Could you explain where you located this and how you did it please?

I wish I could. My OS isn't english so I don't know what the tabs are called but it's something like right-click Mycomputer>Properties>Advanced and then one more click and you get to a window like this:

http://www.cs.usask.ca/~wew036/latex/env-env.jpg [cs.usask.ca]

You create a new variable called HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE and give it the value 1

Alternatively, you can add an entry to the houdini.env file located in your $HOME/houdiniX.X/ folder.

graham
Alternatively, you can add an entry to the houdini.env file located in your $HOME/houdiniX.X/ folder.

Ok, thank you both for the responses. Im not sure if I can do that successfully on my own but I will try it none the less. Thanks!

Hairston

Soothsayer

hairston630

Soothsayer
Good luck!

Hi Soothsayer,

Could you explain where you located this and how you did it please?

I wish I could. My OS isn't english so I don't know what the tabs are called but it's something like right-click Mycomputer>Properties>Advanced and then one more click and you get to a window like this:

http://www.cs.usask.ca/~wew036/latex/env-env.jpg [cs.usask.ca]

You create a new variable called HOUDINI_DISABLE_CONSOLE and give it the value 1

I did everything as you stated but it still wont load the example files. Graham, could you please explain a little more as to what im supposed to be doing when adding another entry? Thank you.

Hairston

Sorry to revive an old thread, but has anyone found a solution?

Hi all, I was also hoping someone had a solution to this problem. I`m on 32 bit vista machine.

Thanks.