We're upgrading our project to Unreal 4.20.2 and, as part of the process, I need to install the Houdini plugin.
We're using a source-build and I'm following the instructions here Houdini on UE 4.20 [github.com]
I have installed Houdini Engine Night Build 16.5.591 in my computer. The plugin is asking for something >= 16.5.580. I read here that this shouldn't be a problem Plugin Failed to Load in 4.20 [www.sidefx.com] (read the last comment by the plugin developer).
The error I'm getting is this one
P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\HoudiniEngineRuntime.Build.cs: warning: Referenced directory ‘P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Source\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\Public\HAPI’ does not exist.
P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\HoudiniEngineRuntime.Build.cs: warning: Referenced directory ‘P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Source\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\Public’ does not exist.
P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineEditor\HoudiniEngineEditor.Build.cs: warning: Referenced directory ‘P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Source\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\Public\HAPI’ does not exist.
P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineEditor\HoudiniEngineEditor.Build.cs: warning: Referenced directory ‘P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Source\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineRuntime\Public’ does not exist.
P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineEditor\HoudiniEngineEditor.Build.cs: warning: Referenced directory ‘P:\Perforce\MyProject\Engine\Source\Plugins\Runtime\HoudiniEngine\Source\HoudiniEngineEditor\Public’ does not exist.
I look into it and I noticed that the path where the the build tool is looking for the files is wrong. There's no Plugins folder within Engine/Source/…
This path is built in UEBuildModle.cs, within this function
protected HashSet<DirectoryReference> CreateDirectoryHashSet(IEnumerable<string> InEnumerableStrin { HashSet<DirectoryReference> Directories = new HashSet<DirectoryReference>(); if(InEnumerableStrings != null) { foreach(string InputString in InEnumerableStrings) { string ExpandedString = Utils.ExpandVariables(InputString); if(ExpandedString.Contains("$(")) { throw new BuildException("Unable to expand variable in '{0}'", InputString); } DirectoryReference Dir = new DirectoryReference(ExpandedString); if(DirectoryReference.Exists(Dir)) { Directories.Add(Dir); } else { Log.WriteLineOnce(LogEventType.Warning, LogFormatOptions.NoSeverityPrefix, "{0}: warning: Referenced directory '{1}' does not exist.", RulesFile, Dir); } } } return Directories; }
This is the line creating it is:
DirectoryReference Dir = new DirectoryReference(ExpandedString);
I've been debugging other plugins and this is the only case where that url is wrong.
Has anyone experienced this error?
Any clue on why is this happening? Am I missing anything (extra steps for manual installation)? Could it be because of a bad property/code within the Houdini Plugin build script?
Any help will be appreciated.
Cheers!
