sbjones25 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 okay, so i know that i've posted the last three posts in this forum, but i just don't get what i'm doing wrong. i have taken one of rendermans own compiled shader. constant.slo, just to make sure that it's a correctly compiled shader im using 8.2. i'm in the bin folder where the rmands.exe file is. i type into the command prompt as follows: rmands -d D:\test -l D:\constant.slo i've also tried: rmands -D D:\test\constant.otl -l D:\constant.slo rmands -D D:\test -l D:\constant.slo rmands -d D:\test -L D:\constant.slo rmands -L D:\constant.slo *** basicly every combination that i could think of *** where in world does it put the stupid otl file for me to load. i can't find it for the life of me. i've been working on this for 2 1/2 days. if anyone has advice, answer, or anything, PLEASE HELP! i'm at the end of my rope. ***Special Note*** i'm doing this directly in the command prompt because i can't get H8.2 to recognize the rmands command. even when i'm in the bin folder. i've tripple checked all folders i could possibly think of. i've searched with windowsOS *.otl... nothing. also i'm not using H9 because i can't get slo2otl.py working either. Thanks for the help! Stephen sjones29@student.scad.edu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanw Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 You need to add Houdini's BIN folder to your %PATH% for this to work as expected. Then cd into the directory with your compiled shader and type rmands -L myotl.otl myshader.slo Note, there are tools to make this process much less painful. Cygwin for one is a lot better then the default Windows command prompt, and Spy, which ships with Houdini is excellent for binding tasks like this to hotkeys. For example, with Spy you can tag your OTL file and your shader and hit a hotkey to use slo2otl.py. something like this in your .spyrc file would probably work after you'd sourced the environment script. map 5 unix hython $HFS/bin/slo2otl.py -L % Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykcosmo Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 you can use : slo2otl.py -l xxx.otl xxx.slo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 You need to make sure you use the Command Line Tools shell from the Start > Programs > Side Effects Software > Houdini 9.5.xxx folder. For the tools to work, the Houdini environment must be set. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.