hotbin_win64_H10.0.401_1.0rc8 install not fully working

[maddabbo]

Hi all,

Hello Drew and thank you for a very cool set of tools.

I'm having problems getting anything other than the ocean sop working.

I've installed both Houdini 10.0.401 and previously tried 10.0.374 win64

I've downloaded both HOTBIN_win64 10.0.401 and 10.0.374 zip files.

I've got the correct path variable for the hotbin under system variables.

I've added the HOUDINI_PATH variable for the hotbin under user variables and also tried it under system variables? Which should it go in?

Niether works.

With the HOUDINI_PATH variable for 10.0.401 set and 10.0.401 houidni in the path , houdini won't even load load.

With the HOUDINI_PATH variable for 10.0.374 set and 10.0.374 houidni in the path , houdini loads and the ocean sop works fine.

I install the otl into the current hip file to play with it. and then the ocean_displace material becomes available. I make a new material from a surface material and add the ocean_displace into that so it has surface and ocean_displace. It renders flat and says it can't find the opdef: ocean_displace.

Any ideas?

Should I try the 10.0.374 win32 hotbin compile to see if it works?

Sounded from some posts that win64 was brave?

Thanks,

-michael

[maddabbo]

OKAY!!!!

I finally got this working and it ROCKS!

I had to simplify my paths. We have a pretty complex houdini setup with many machines and a larger HOUDINI_PATH.

I had to simplify to the basic system variables and nothing else.

I should be able to find where our environment is breaking and add HOT back into that and get them to work together.

Thanks all!

so HOTBIN_win64_10.0.401 works fine for me.

OCEAN_SOP

OCEAN_DISPLACE

and

OCEAN_VOP

all tested and working

I'll skip 10.0.374 because I read something about the dlls being the wrong version.

Thanks again!

Whooo HOOO!

-michael

[eloop]

Glad you got things going. Win64 is now a first class citizen, you can ignore those old posts from now on :-) If you have Visual Studio 2005 you can also compile your own versions from source. Sorry I managed to hose my win32 installation at the moment, hence no win32 binary for 401. The 374 build had problems due to a dumb bug in my build scripts, now fixed (ie the "hython setup.py bdist" command mentioned in the docs).

Main thing with HOUDINI_PATH is to remember the ";&" bit at the end to make sure that you're adding to the path instead of overriding it.

-Drew

OKAY!!!!

I finally got this working and it ROCKS!

I had to simplify my paths. We have a pretty complex houdini setup with many machines and a larger HOUDINI_PATH.

I had to simplify to the basic system variables and nothing else.

I should be able to find where our environment is breaking and add HOT back into that and get them to work together.

Thanks all!

so HOTBIN_win64_10.0.401 works fine for me.

OCEAN_SOP

OCEAN_DISPLACE

and

OCEAN_VOP

all tested and working

I'll skip 10.0.374 because I read something about the dlls being the wrong version.

Thanks again!

Whooo HOOO!

-michael

Edited September 30, 2009 by eloop

[maddabbo]

Thanks much!

It's working great!

I've got reasonable night water from 25K feet in the air with nice lighting glinting and manking nice specular and reflections.

Very fast too.

-mikey

Glad you got things going. Win64 is now a first class citizen, you can ignore those old posts from now on :-) If you have Visual Studio 2005 you can also compile your own versions from source. Sorry I managed to hose my win32 installation at the moment, hence no win32 binary for 401. The 374 build had problems due to a dumb bug in my build scripts, now fixed (ie the "hython setup.py bdist" command mentioned in the docs).

Main thing with HOUDINI_PATH is to remember the ";&" bit at the end to make sure that you adding to the path instead of overriding it.

-Drew