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Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:20 pm**

Hey,

with basically all versions of Octane 2021, first with Houdini 18.5 and now with Houdini 19 (Indie), I get this error when I start Houdini:

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Error while parsing a menu definition file
 'C:/Grafik/OTOY/Octane_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64/MainMenuCommon.xml':
Cannot find element 'h.create_mantra_pbr' needed for ordering of 'render_create_submenu_sep_octane'.
Cannot find element 'help_menu' needed for ordering of 'octane_menu'.

This leads to the Houdini Menu being messed up:

Any idea why that happens?

I'm loading Octane via the houdini.env like this:

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# Octane:
PATH = $PATH;C:\Grafik\OTOY\Octane_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64\bin;
HOUDINI_PATH = $HOUDINI_PATH;C:\Grafik\OTOY\Octane_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64;

This happened in the last couple of 2021 versions already, but I thought it would "go away (TM)" in a later update but it didn't so far...
This is on Windows 8.1 x64.

Cheers,

Tom

Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:29 pm**

Can you please declare your HOUDINI_PATH variable as you can see below?

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HOUDINI_PATH = "C:\Grafik\OTOY\Octane_2021.1.0.4_Houdini_19.0.383_Win64;&"

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:48 pm**

Ok, that did it.

Thanks Juanjgon!
Used to work for me in older versions like that, but then I had more engines installed via env, now they all use packages.

Cheers,

Tom

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