Octane doesn't work completely while installed

[aLeXXtoR]

I've got a bug that I've never seen...

My laptop. I had Houdini (Indie) 18.0.287 and Octane for Houdini 2019.1.4.0 — everything worked great.

Now I decided to install Houdini 18.0.348 and Octane for Houdini 2020.1.0.3 — and right there the issue happen: I have the Octane menu, I have the Octane shelf (both of them), but it doesn't work.

Clicking on "Options" for example causes this:


I have no single Octane node. If i try to open the scene with Octane nodes I get errors "Bad parent found" and "Bad node type found" (Octane's materials): screenshot 1, screenshot 2. I get the same if I try to use shelf tools like OctLight etc.: screenshot 3

I tried to rollback: uninstalled Houdini 18.0.348, re-installed 18.0.287.
I also tried to install Houdini 18.0.391.
I deleted Octane folder and re-created it with older version (that worked previously).
I deleted Houdini preferences folder in the "Documents" folder and set up Houdini preferences from scratch, but nothing helped...

Please help me to figure out what was go wrong and what should I do with it?

Thanks!

I have ASUS ROG GL703V laptop:
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 2.8 GHz
GeForce GTX 1050 4Gb (Game Ready driver version 442.50)
Windows 10 Home (1 language) with lastest updates

[juanjgon]

Hi,

This seems a configuration problem, probably a mistake in the PATH variable in your houdini.env file. Can you please attach this file here (compressed as a .zip file) here to take a look at it?

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[aLeXXtoR]

Hi,

This seems a configuration problem, probably a mistake in the PATH variable in your houdini.env file. Can you please attach this file here (compressed as a .zip file) here to take a look at it?

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Sure, but as I wrote before, I deleted the houdini dir in the Documents folder, so Houdini re-created all files there after re-installation. And I re-entered paths.

[juanjgon]

The PATH variable must point to the plugin bin folder, so it should be something like this:

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# OCTANE
PATH = "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneHoudini\bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneHoudini;&"

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[aLeXXtoR]

Indeed it is, thank you!
I have no idea how I could break this and didn't notice after...