Hi,

I have an older file that loads and renders (in Karma) a bgeo.sc file created in 17.5.293

Using today's build (18.0.367 Linux) however any attempt to load in this bgeo.sc fails.

Reference LOP, File LOP etc.

When I try the Stage manager, and browse to the path where the bgeo.sc file lives, the file browser is empty as though it doesn't recognize bgeo or bgeo.sc files.

Even using a SOP Create LOP fails, the file SOP inside loads the .bgeo.sc and shows it to me in the standard Houdini viewport, but back in LOPs no primitives are created from the SOP Create LOP.

Has something broken or is something in transition or has the process changed somehow recently and I missed the log entry?

Cheers,

Peter B

Maybe related, likely not, I get this shizzle in my shell:

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (6): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.key_translates” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (7): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.key_rotates” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (8): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.key_scales” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (12): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.set_keyframe” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (13): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.del_keyframe” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (17): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.reload_state” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (19): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.log_state” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (29): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.duplicate” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (30): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.delete” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (31): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.group” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (32): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.copy” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (33): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.cut” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (34): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.paste” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (36): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.edit_variant” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (48): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.reset_pivot” not found

ERROR: /tmp/houdini_temp/hfs5024-7.tmp (50): Hotkey symbol “h.pane.gview.state.lop.stagemanager.clear_info” not found

This file works fine in 18.0.355 (last time I dl'd 18 at home) fwiw.

It sounds like the BGEO file format plugin for USD isn't getting loaded. Can you try running Houdini after setting
TF_DEBUG=PLUG_*
and make sure that the plugins in $HFS/houdini/dso/usd_plugins are being loaded?

If not, do you have a custom HOUDINI_DSO_PATH set? Or a PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME set? Or any other unusual features to your environment? Do you see the same problem on Windows, or just Linux?

same here - stage/usd doesn't display anything in 365 & 367 but 348 works. Linux/KDE.

No errors loading USD plugins. No custom HOUDINI_DSO_PATH / PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME



Edit: Hydra GL delegate is missing?

Hi Mark,

Same as goat, nada being spit out but can't load bgeo.sc files.

I also notice that Hqueue is quite flaky (machines dropping for no reason) in 18.0.367. Perhaps unrelated, but thought I'd mention it.

I can't easily test Windows currently, but if I get a chance I'll give it a try.

Cheers,

Peter B

I'm pretty sure the problem is a difference between Linux and Windows. When starting up Houdini we add entries to the PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME variable (which USD uses to find its plugins). This doesn't seem to be working on Linux, so the plugins in $HFS/houdini/dso/usd_plugins aren't being loaded (these plugins include the karma and Houdini GL render delegates and the BGEO file format plugin). I'll try to sort this out…

I believe this will be fixedd in 18.0.370.

Thanks Mark, if 370 builds I'll give it a try!

.371 working well. Thanks for the quick fix!

Yup thanks Mark.