Sorry for such a long post but I'm currently hitting a brick wall.
I have a strange problem with Houdini 15.5 daily builds. My 15.5.480 installation is working smoothly. The only plugins I installed are the latest Pixar Renderman and the latest Redshift for Houdini.
Some days ago I wanted to give the latest daily build a try. After installation I tried running Houdini Indie and got this message:
After that Houdini crashed.
When I tried to e.g. start gplay.exe this popped up:
My older installation is still running without throwing any errors.
So I did some research and checked my system environment variables. Nothing special there, no reference to anything Houdini.
I renamed my houdini.env (which only contains 5 lines for both Redshift and Renderman, nothing too fancy) and after trying to run Houdini Indie daily it recreated a new houdini.env but still crashed. So it shouldn't be a problem with wrong environment variables coming from there. It also looks like Houdini is looking in the right directory and sees the houdini.env file.
I moved my whole settings (the “houdini15.5” folder in documents) to another place and re-ran Houdini Indie. Still crashing.
I then opened the command line tools, one for the production build and one for the daily.
I typed “hconfig” in both windows. The output of the production build is:
HFS := 'C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.480'
HOME := 'C:/Users/Steffen/Documents'
HOUDINI_DEFAULT_RIB_RENDERER := 'prman20.9'
HOUDINI_DESKTOP_DIR := 'C:/Users/Steffen/Desktop'
HOUDINI_OS := 'Windows'
HOUDINI_PATH := 'C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/15.5.480;&'
HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR := 'C:/Users/Steffen/AppData/Local/Temp'
HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR := 'C:/Users/Steffen/Documents/houdini15.5'
HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN := 'prman'
HSITE := 'C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.480/site'
USER := 'Steffen'
the same command with the daily build:
Couldn't find help file: help/config.help
Make sure your HFS variable is set properly, or
that your HOUDINI_PATH includes $HFS/houdini.
hconfig -ap with the production build:
Common paths are set to:
$JOB = <not defined>
$HIP = C:/Users/Steffen
$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR = C:/Users/Steffen/Documents/houdini15.5
$HOME = C:/Users/Steffen/Documents
$HSITE = C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.480/site
$HFS = C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.480
HOUDINI_PATH := "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/15.5.480;&"
The path of directories where Houdini looks for configuration
files.
Directories searched (in order) are:
1) "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/15.5.480"
2) "$HIP"
3) "$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR"
4) "$HFS/houdini"
5) "$HFS/bin"
hconfig -ap with the daily build:
Common paths are set to:
$JOB = <not defined>
$HIP = C:/Users/Steffen
$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR = <not defined>
$HOME = <not defined>
$HSITE = <not defined>
$HFS = <not defined>
HOUDINI_PATH := ""
Directories searched (in order) are:
1) "$HIP"
2) "$HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR"
It looks like all paths are basically not defined at all and I don't know why. There's a “;&” behind the HOUDINI_PATH in houdini.env so it shouldn't overwrite anything.
I also tried uninstalling Redshift and Renderman and the production build but to no avail.
Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? How can I select the “Set Up Environment” option in “hsetup.exe” that gplay mentions?
Thanks
Steffen
