Hello !
I need help, I started using Houdini last week for school, but it's impossible for me te render a single frame (even if there is a light, a camera, a shader, and just a cube). I have a black screen on the render tab and when i click on it i obtain the error you can see on the first picture.
The only hypothesis I have is that since the lauching of Houdini I have an error (second picture) about utf8.
Do you know the solution to this problem of rendering ?
I already uninstalled-reinstalled houdini and it didn't worked.
Thank you !
utf8 error when lauching houdini and can't render
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Houdini doesn't currently support any file paths with non-ASCII characters in them on Windows, so it might be related to that if you have a Windows user directory path that contains a non-ASCII character, e.g.
(That said, it seems a little unexpected to me that it's looking for the asset_store directory, unless you're using assets from Orbolt, but maybe that's normal.)
C:/Users/cécile
might or might not lead to problems with the é
. (That said, it seems a little unexpected to me that it's looking for the asset_store directory, unless you're using assets from Orbolt, but maybe that's normal.)
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Thank you ndickson !
I already had this problem with other softwares, but I have always found a way to make it work.
Here the only solution for me was creating an other session on my pc, to have a new user folder without “é”.
I didn't manage to rename my current folder but that's ok.
Now I can render so that's marvelous !
I already had this problem with other softwares, but I have always found a way to make it work.
Here the only solution for me was creating an other session on my pc, to have a new user folder without “é”.
I didn't manage to rename my current folder but that's ok.
Now I can render so that's marvelous !
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It's good that you got it working. Hopefully one day unicode paths will work more smoothly in Houdini on Windows. Linux adopted UTF8 natively, so unicode paths apparently work a lot more reliably in Houdini on Linux, without requiring a huge overhaul of how paths are managed in the software.
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