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error on clicking a octane button (image attached)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Add_Octane_ROP", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.368/houdini/python3.9libs\roptoolutils.py", line 10, in createRenderNode
rop = hou.node('/out').createNode(rop_type, exact_type_name=exact_type_name)
File "C:\PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.368/houdini/python3.9libs\houpythonportion\ui.py", line 1112, in decorator
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.368/houdini/python3.9libs\hou.py", line 14553, 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

My Packages json

{
"env" : [
{"HOUDINI_PATH" : "$HOU/Octane_2021.1.6.0_Houdini_19.5.368_Win64"},
{"PATH" : "$HOU/Octane_2021.1.6.0_Houdini_19.5.368_Win64/bin"},
]
}

I already tried
1. clean install of houdini
2. getting rid of all other extensions in my packages

i would appreciate any help, thanks in advance

That means that Houdini can find the plugin but can't load it. Does Octane Standalone 2021.1.6 work fine on this system?

Perhaps you could try to configure the plugin using absolute paths, without this $HOU variable to check if it helps.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Hi Juan

That did the trick!

Thanks
m.

I am having same issue but on Linux. Using houdini.env not package.
Standalone and Modo plugin works on this system without problems.
I added just HOUDINI_PATH.
Houdini 19.5.453, and Octane for that version of Houdini.

You also need to add the PATH variable pointing to the plugin/bin directory.

-Juanjo

Tried with package too, which has Path defined but was not working either.

Manage to figure out what was the issue. Ldd of lib revealed that I was missing libglut library. Installing freeglut fixed it.