How to install Octane for Houdini19.0.383

[MichaelJeffreyVance]

OMG I've done some reading and watched some videos on how to install Octane for Houdini on Windows 10, but found no clear answers, just some very poor and completely bizarre step by step (but with some steps invariably missing, glossed over or absent) instructions for how to edit the Houdini.env file to point at the Octane plugin folder, but there is literally no such thing as a Houdini.env file in Houdini 19x. Are there any guidelines available for non programmers to get this thing working?

[juanjgon]

You should have a houdini.env file inside your Documents/houdini19.0 directory. Don't you have it?

Later is a matter of adding a couple of variables pointing to the plugin directory where you have unzipped it, for example if you unzip it to C:\Otoy

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HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2
PATH = "C:/Otoy/Octane_2021.1.1.2_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64/bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Otoy/Octane_2021.1.1.2_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64;&"

You can also use a packages file, which is even easier. The .json file is attached.
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/plugins.html

Hope it helps,
-Juanjo

[mikegem]

This video worked for me first try today.

https://youtu.be/lzqI3scor7Y

[MichaelJeffreyVance]

You should have a houdini.env file inside your Documents/houdini19.0 directory. Don't you have it?

Later is a matter of adding a couple of variables pointing to the plugin directory where you have unzipped it, for example if you unzip it to C:\Otoy

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HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2
PATH = "C:/Otoy/Octane_2021.1.1.2_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64/bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/Otoy/Octane_2021.1.1.2_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64;&"

You can also use a packages file, which is even easier. The .json file is attached.
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/plugins.html

Hope it helps,
-Juanjo

Thanks but there is no such file in all of Houdini19. In Houdini19 there is similar file called Houdini_setup, but using that instead didn't work. Regarding the packages file, the link you sent is like three thousand words and ten pages long on how to use one. Is that really even easier in your estimation? It looks like a semester of graduate school to me. So anyway I did download the file, but couldn't find any directory in which to put it.

[MichaelJeffreyVance]

This video worked for me first try today.

https://youtu.be/lzqI3scor7Y

Doesn't work here because there is no such file in Houdini19.

[galleon27]

This video worked for me first try today.

https://youtu.be/lzqI3scor7Y

Doesn't work here because there is no such file in Houdini19.

That's because you are looking in the wrong directory. Go to Documents > houdini19.0

[juanjgon]

Yeah, you should have it in C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\houdini19.0

-Juanjo

[MichaelJeffreyVance]

Yeah, you should have it in C:\Users\yourUser\Documents\houdini19.0

-Juanjo

I posted a screen shot showing that very directory and you say it's the wrong one. What is it will the people here? Do they enjoy gaslighting fellow users or what? Four months now I can't get this simple thing to work because Otoy doesn't care less.

[juanjgon]

Sorry, don't you have in your system the C:\Users\<yourUser>\Documents\houdini19.0\houdini.env file? It should be there!

-Juanjo