Octane & Renderman plugin conflict

[sdanaher]

Hi - I download the renderman demo to try but I cannot load both Octane and renderman at the same time.

If I comment out the octane path lines in houdini.env then renderman loads, otherwise it won't. Is there a solution for this?

[juanjgon]

Probably you need to join all the plugin paths in the same PATH and HOUDINI_PATH variables, declaring the variables only once, or use the new packages plugins configuration workflow.

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/plugins.html

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[sdanaher]

OK, and how does one do that please? Can you give me an example of how to combine the two in the .env syntactically? The rules are not easily deduced by looking at the text.

The Renderman lines are:

RMANTREE=C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManProServer-23.2
RFHTREE=C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManForHoudini-23.2
RMAN_PROCEDURALPATH=$RFHTREE\18.0\openvdb;&
HOUDINI_PATH=$RFHTREE\18.0;&
PATH=$RMANTREE\bin;&

while the octane lines are:
PATH = "C:\Program Files\OTOY\2020\H18\Octane_2020.1.0.5_Houdini_18.0.416_Win64\bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Program Files\OTOY\2020\H18\Octane_2020.1.0.5_Houdini_18.0.416_Win64;&"

[juanjgon]

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RMANTREE=C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManProServer-23.2
RFHTREE=C:\Program Files\Pixar\RenderManForHoudini-23.2
RMAN_PROCEDURALPATH=$RFHTREE\18.0\openvdb;&

HOUDINI_PATH="$RFHTREE\18.0;C:\Program Files\OTOY\2020\H18\Octane_2020.1.0.5_Houdini_18.0.416_Win64;&"
PATH="$RMANTREE\bin;C:\Program Files\OTOY\2020\H18\Octane_2020.1.0.5_Houdini_18.0.416_Win64\bin;$PATH"

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[sdanaher]

Thank you janjgon! That's very helpful (just use semicolons to join multiple paths).