Dry sand shelf tool not working from houdini shelf

[FXLover]

Hi guys,
             I tried working around with Houdini 14 in my machine. For some reason, none of the shelf tool works for me under grains tab except rbd grains in Houdini 14. For example when i create a sphere and then directly click Dry sand/Wet sand etc on the shelf tool I get the following error:   'None Type' object has no attribute 'set.'
 
Am I doing something wrong? This must be something simple that I am missing. I have an image attached as well.

Machine specs:

OS X Yosemite
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
3,5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
 
Thanks!

[Guest tar]

It should work, try to reinstall Houdini.

[FXLover]

Thanks for your reply Marty. I tried uninstalling and then re-installing it. It doesn't seem to work. The problem remains the same.

[Guest tar]

do any of the shelf tools work?

[FXLover]

All shelf tools work. The following tools don't work: DrySand/Wet Sand/Granular Solid/Granular sheet/Granular strand on the grains tab. Only rbd grains under grains shelf tab work. When i try to add a pop network node under geometry node, I get the same error.

[Guest tar]

If that's the latest Houdini build then it's probably worth sending a bug report to SideFx.

 

Try opening the attached file too, it's just a hip file with a sphere turned into sand.

Sand.hipnc

[FXLover]

Hey Marty thanks for the file! I checked your file was working. It does work! Then I tried creating another box in your file and tried using dry sand shelf tool. It worked as well! Then I tried a new houdini file to create a dry sandfrom the box. It gives me an error. This is weird! I tried Houdini 14.0.472 and 14.0.444 versions. I tried uninstalling and re installing again. I saw something weird this time while uninstalling. It takes hardly few seconds to uninstall Houdini. And when I re-Install houdini, under package name: Houdini applications and Houdini Framework seems to be locked and checked. Once the installation is done, I get Houdini apprentice, houdini Indie and Houdini Fx icons in my launchpad. All of them opens [with of course apprentice edition ]. The installation takes 2-3 minutes to get done. I have the file attached when I open houdini package. 

[FXLover]

here is the image

[Guest tar]

Perhaps the '/tmp' directory may be not be allowing you to write files to it.

 

Can you make sure you are an admin user when using Houdini, or, set the 'HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR' in your Houdini environment to a folder in your home directory

[FXLover]

Do you mean to write this in houdini.env file: $HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR = “/Users/username/” ? If yes it doesn't seem to work. 

[Guest tar]

You'll need to put it like this:

 

HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR=/Users/marty/TEMP

 

 

where my user name is 'marty' and I have already created a folder called 'TEMP'. The concept here is that you will then have permission to write the temp files that Houdini makes when using the toolsets within Houdini. 

[FXLover]

I tried doing the same. It doesn't seem to work.