Ahmed Hindy

adlabac
that means our HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH environment literally ends with @/otls;&

eg.
@set "HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH=tool_directory1;tool_directory2;@/otls;&"

A

so how did you have that @otls;& at the end, and you digured it was causing an issue so you removed it? or you didn't have it before so you finally added the @otls;& expression at the end?

adlabac

mabelzile
You could try to debug first locally to see if it's related to the shared folder (i.e. move the shared folder to a folder local to your machine).

I've tried both and it is working.
1. On my local machine set HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR to network share(same as farm using)
2. copied shared folder to local disk and then set HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR there

What do you mean by this ?

we have packages directory on the network share which is defined by HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR before render starts

It just means that this HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR environment variable was set properly before render command was started.


UPDATE:
after carefully comparing all the environments, I found the reason of the missing packages. I always thought that @/otls;& endings in HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH were only needed within houdini.env and not supposed it is working in .bat files.

Now errors disappeared.

I have the same issue on farm, can you elaborate? launching houdini with a batch file with "HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR" set will work, but when I submit it to deadline farm suddenly thats an invalid package folder, even tho the farm is working normally with that drive.

This isn't about visiblity. You probably do an object merge or reference the alembics somewhere else that involves the sim node tree. If you still cant find the issue then sharing a hipfile will help to debug