Installation on OSX

[ricky_otoy]

I am facing this problem now, for some unknown reason octane on macOS refuses to render now, plugin loads fine just like yesterday when everything worked, nothing has changed but it just sits there and does nothing when IPR opens... I also can't logout?!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Octane/comment ... r_account/

same issue at this person.... this is pretty messed up

Hi, which build are you using? Is it with a particular scene or even an empty scene with an Octane ROP + RenderTarget + Camera?
Please turn on the Debug output under Options and PM me the saved file. Thanks!

I don't think you need to sign out and back in again, although is it showing you it is activated?

[atracksler]

I had shelved this for a few days, but am back after the V20updates, and still not able to load O.

Same error.

How do I allow the plugin? I'm not getting an error like I did when I was using Cinema?

[ricky_otoy]

I had shelved this for a few days, but am back after the V20updates, and still not able to load O.

Same error.

How do I allow the plugin? I'm not getting an error like I did when I was using Cinema?

Hi atracksler!

You didn't seem to reply to PDivision1: "What is your mac hardware? The plugin is only built for apple silicon (M1/M2)."
Which hardware are you using exactly and which OS version? Also don't forget H20 has a different environment file to add your octane plugin path.

[atracksler]

M2 Max
96gb
ventura 13.6.1

My Houdini.env:

HOUDINI_PATH = "/Applications/redshift/redshift4houdini/20.0.506_arm64;/Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime;&"

[ricky_otoy]

Ok had a look again and got the same error when clearing permissions. This is an Apple permissions thing so please try the following.

Step 01: Control + right-click then choose "Open" on the file liboctane.dylib under the octane plugin folder dso.

Step:01

Step 02: Click "Open" on the dialog box then start Houdini.

Step:02

You would have probably also see the file appear under your Privacy & Security Mac settings.
You could also try this on the Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib if the first one didn't sort it out. Let me know if that helps

[atracksler]

Got the dialog box on the liboctane.dylib

Same error.

When I try opening the Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib, I get a terminal window with:

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Last login: Fri Nov 24 12:03:14 on ttys000
Adam@AdBook-Pro ~ % /Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime/dso/Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib ; exit;
zsh: exec format error: /Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime/dso/Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...shell_session_save_history:21: rewriting /Users/Adam/.zsh_history would change its ownership -- skipped

[Process completed]

[ricky_otoy]

Got the dialog box on the liboctane.dylib

Same error.

When I try opening the Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib, I get a terminal window with:

[Process completed]

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If restart and try launch Houdini again, do you get the following popup? When you do 'Allow Anyway' under security you would have also needed to add your Mac user password to give proper permissions.

Click Allow and Enter your password. Then Launch Houdini again.

If permissions aren't added you will get those errors from your first post - example below.

[atracksler]

Same error message:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Add_Octane_ROP", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Applications/Houdini/Houdini20.0.506/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/20.0/Resources/houdini/python3.10libs/roptoolutils.py", line 10, in createRenderNode
    rop = hou.node('/out').createNode(rop_type, exact_type_name=exact_type_name)
  File "/Applications/Houdini/Houdini20.0.506/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/20.0/Resources/houdini/python3.10libs/houpythonportion/ui.py", line 1137, in decorator
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Houdini/Houdini20.0.506/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/20.0/Resources/houdini/python3.10libs/hou.py", line 15074, in createNode
    return _hou.Node_createNode(self, node_type_name, node_name, run_init_scripts, load_contents, exact_type_name, force_valid_node_name)
hou.OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Invalid node type name

I have restarted several times.

I opened liboctane.dylib, and gave it permissions.

When I also open Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib

I get the following in Terminal:

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Last login: Sun Nov 26 11:30:06 on ttys001
/Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime/dso/Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib ; exit;
Adam@AdBook-Pro ~ % /Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime/dso/Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib ; exit;
zsh: exec format error: /Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime/dso/Houdini_Octane_20.0.506.dylib

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...shell_session_save_history:21: rewriting /Users/Adam/.zsh_history would change its ownership -- skipped

Process completed

I'm using the following in Houdini.env:

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HOUDINI_PATH = "/Applications/redshift/redshift4houdini/20.0.506_arm64;/Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime;&"

If I don't use the Houdini.env and try to use a package file:

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{
"enable" : true,
"env": 
[
{
"HOUDINI_PATH" :
{
"value": "/Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/_PLUGINS/Octane_2022.1.2.0_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime",
}

}
]
}

I don't get the Octane shelf.


My Octane Standalone is installed at /Applications/Octane X Prime 2023.1.app

My Octane plugin is installed at /Users/Adam/Library/Preferences/houdini/Octane_2023.1.1_Houdini_20.0.506_macos_Prime

I'm totally stumped.

[snakeboxmedia]

I still haven't gotten octane 2022 to run on macOS, 2023 works fine, both installed the same way, just pointing to a different folder. unfortunately, it's 2022 I need at work right now, so a bit annoying and weird.

running an m3 macbook, is there a chance octane 2022 aren't happy under Sonoma or should it all just work fine?

[ricky_otoy]

I still haven't gotten octane 2022 to run on macOS, 2023 works fine, both installed the same way, just pointing to a different folder. unfortunately, it's 2022 I need at work right now, so a bit annoying and weird.

running an m3 macbook, is there a chance octane 2022 aren't happy under Sonoma or should it all just work fine?

You would have to roll back to Ventura as 2022 will not work with Sonoma - This will affect Standalone too.