issue with custom hda for octane material

[gui2one]

Hi ,
I have an issue with an old hda I made to translate Cd attribute into 2 uvs attributes.
Anyway the content of the hda is not the issue.
I remember it working perfectly some months ago. And now Houdini complains when i try instance that hda inside an Octane Material Builder, I have an error message.

Did sometyhing change in that regard in Octane ?



I am on Octane 4.02.1, H17.5.173

[juanjgon]

Hi,

What error do you get? A screengrab could help. If your HDA was created with the same Octane version you should not get any error, but if it has been created with another Octane (or even Houdini) version, it could have nodes with deprecated parameters. In any case, usually it is safe to ignore these warnings due to deprecated parameters, and if you update the HDA file, they should be fixed.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[gui2one]

Here is a screen grab of the error message when I try create a digital asset from a subnet , inside a "Octane Material Builder Vop".

https://ibb.co/M6vbstM


Note : I just though of checking versions of Octane and Houdini
I am on H17.5.293
and Octane 4.04.0.2 with HDK 17.5.173

Could the HDK version difference cause all these issues ?
(the plugin works pretty well appart from that)

Edit : I can still instance the hda at root level , I mean /mat/
and I copy the child nodes into a new subnetwork inside a Octane Material Builder, the subnetwork works fine. But I just can't turn it into a hda.
Being able to instance it a root level is of no use to me, I need to use it inside an octane material to drive the color parameter. Or am I doing it wrong maybe ?

[juanjgon]

Ok. You are right. The problem to create HDAs inside the Octane vopnets was related to a limitation on the plugin side. I've fixed this issue for the next plugin build that I'll release shortly.

Thanks for reporting this issue!
-Juanjo