Achim Dietze

It is getting weirder. What I ust found,and what made me think it was fixed it that Houdini corrects the environment variable when I validate the shfs files fro the launcher menu.
After that H22 starts normally.
When I close it and start it again, the environment varible is set back to the custom location and H22 throws the error. Ever though the files are now in the custom location.

So it only seems to works with the default location. But I dont know how I can prevent H22 from resetting the env variable to the custom location on start - or exit?


EDIT:
So setting the shfs directory manually fixed it now.
In conclusion the issue is the error message which wrongly points to the custom directoy. Then the automatic change of the env variable by Houdini is confusing as well.

It should be working with any directoy in the first place.
Thanks again. WE live and lear.

You are absolutely correct. I found the SHFS files in the default directory C:/Programs....
However, the environment variable is set to SHFS C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/shfs when I check in the "about" dialogue (which is why the files were validated without an error)but Houdini is still looking in the custom directory.
I solved the problem for now by just copying the contents of the shfs folder in the default location to the custom location.
Now Houdini seems to find them on startup but the environment variable is still the default one and this kinda contradicts the point of the shfs directory.

Seems to be a bit of a mess.
Thanks for the help.


EDIT: Soory to say, it didnt fix the issue. I worked once. I ust started Houdini again and the error was back.
At least we have a hint now. I need to figure out if I can edit the env variable to fix it. This is really weird.

Hi people, I get the following error message when launching Houdini:

"SHFS currently not installed: D:/Side Effects Software/shfs"

The path exists, validating the shfs files shows no error. Houdini seem to run normally. But I get the error message when I start a render as well, the render process then procedes normally.
I am not sure what to make of this. Can I gnore it?

Any advice?