Hello I have some trouble using the Maya plugin in win10.
I am trying to use Maya plugin for Houdini19.5.493. I followed the instrusions on installation, then I open my Maya 2020, it reports this error:
The Houdini Engine for Maya plugin could not be initialized. The path to libHAPIL is invalid. Please double-check the value in Houdini Engine>Preference.
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The HFS location I provided is C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini19.5.493 and libHAPIL location is C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini19.5.493/bin/libHAPIL.dll
Is the problem related to the path format? Maybe there are some more setup steps I missed? Thank you!!
I used the launcher to install everything, Houdini 19.5.493 itself and also the plugin. I noticed that it first checks the $HFS variable in the code so I manually added the path to environment variable and it is able to load the plugin now. So somehow the paths I put in the houdini engine preference are not recogonized.
Thank you, inserting HFS = C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini19.5.493 in the maya .env made it work again.
Edit: I think Sidefx changed something in the installation. Now there is a space between houdini and 19.5.493. So the path now has to look like this HFS = C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 19.5.493
I used the launcher to install everything, Houdini 19.5.493 itself and also the plugin. I noticed that it first checks the $HFS variable in the code so I manually added the path to environment variable and it is able to load the plugin now. So somehow the paths I put in the houdini engine preference are not recogonized.
Hello could you be more specific how to modify this??
I used the launcher to install everything, Houdini 19.5.493 itself and also the plugin. I noticed that it first checks the $HFS variable in the code so I manually added the path to environment variable and it is able to load the plugin now. So somehow the paths I put in the houdini engine preference are not recogonized.
Hello could you be more specific how to modify this??
Mine was completely empty, so I just added the line, as described by Bobcat: HFS = D:\Production\SideFX\Houdini 20.0.625
That's obviously the path to my Houdini install—you'd change it to wherever yours is. Once I'd made that change, Maya loaded the plug-in without complaint.
I used the launcher to install everything, Houdini 19.5.493 itself and also the plugin. I noticed that it first checks the $HFS variable in the code so I manually added the path to environment variable and it is able to load the plugin now. So somehow the paths I put in the houdini engine preference are not recogonized.
Hello could you be more specific how to modify this??
Mine was completely empty, so I just added the line, as described by Bobcat: HFS = D:\Production\SideFX\Houdini 20.0.625
That's obviously the path to my Houdini install—you'd change it to wherever yours is. Once I'd made that change, Maya loaded the plug-in without complaint.
BryanRay
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shen25748 Hi, thank you for your reply!
I used the launcher to install everything, Houdini 19.5.493 itself and also the plugin. I noticed that it first checks the $HFS variable in the code so I manually added the path to environment variable and it is able to load the plugin now. So somehow the paths I put in the houdini engine preference are not recogonized.
Hello could you be more specific how to modify this??
Mine was completely empty, so I just added the line, as described by Bobcat: HFS = D:\Production\SideFX\Houdini 20.0.625
That's obviously the path to my Houdini install—you'd change it to wherever yours is. Once I'd made that change, Maya loaded the plug-in without complaint.
