I got both Arnold and Octane for houdini installed (yay me), and they both use the same method for “initialising” where I add a few lines to the houdini.env

like this for Arnold:

PATH = “$PATH;Cpath/to/htoa/scripts/bin”
HOUDINI_PATH = “Cpath/to/htoa;&”

And this for Octane:

PATH = “Cpath/to/Octane_H14/bin;$PATH”
HOUDINI_PATH = “Cpath/to/Octane_H14;&”

But If I have both in my .env I get conflict - missing icons and whatnot - since it seems the last one wins.

How can I have both running at the same time so I don't need to # my way out of it each time I start Houdini?

Cheerio

Got help from Otoy support. Thanks!

You can put more paths in the houdini.env file to support multiple render plugins, for example:

PATH = “Cpath/to/other_render/bin;Cpath/to/Octane_H14/bin;$PATH”
HOUDINI_PATH = “Cpath/to/other_render;Cpath/to/Octane_H14;&”

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much pingo, I guess there's a bunch of people still struggling with the same issue these days!!!!! yayyyyyyyyyy

Thanks - I was struggling with this as well