Hi everyone anyone got lucky yet?
i posted this on answerhub of renderman:
https://renderman.pixar.com/answers/questions/19736/houdini-error-couldnt-find-valid-rman-in-distribut.html [
renderman.pixar.com]
after spending almost eternity i got it to work on ubuntu now it won't render
here is a copypaste of the thread above:
Hi everyone,
Just installed prman-ncr 23.4 on ubuntu 20.04 for houdini 18.0.532
i have three issues:
1. when I fire up the “it”, I get this error:
Couldn't find valid rman in distribution root
2. when i fire up the IPR, i get this error:
RfH: Could not initialize Renderman
3. Inside Solaris:
I see renderman listed in the hydra delegate list, however once i “select” it, viewport reverts to houdini openGL and renderman disappears from the dropdown
my .env file loks like this:
RMANTREE=/opt/pixar/RenderManProServer-23.4
RFHTREE=/opt/pixar/RenderManForHoudini-23.4
RMAN_PROCEDURALPATH=$RFHTREE/18.0.532/openvdb:&
HOUDINI_PATH=$RFHTREE/18.0.532:&
PATH=$RMANTREE/bin:&
HOUDINI_DEFAULT_RIB_RENDERER=prman23.4
(i got the first 4 lines from here:
https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/RFH23/Installation+of+RenderMan+for+Houdini)
(and borrowed the last 2 from here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SFiLA2Pqz4&feature=youtu.be&t=829&ab_channel=Houdini)
PLUS i also get this error while trying to launch the “renderman preset browser”
There is an error in the RenderMan Preset Browser script.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 2, in
File “/opt/pixar/RenderManForHoudini-23.4/18.0.532/python2.7libs/rfh/preset_browser_houdini.py”, line 38, in
from prman import Version as prman_version
File “/opt/pixar/RenderManProServer-23.4/bin/prman.py”, line 45, in
class __private: # simple means to keep locals private
File “/opt/pixar/RenderManProServer-23.4/bin/prman.py”, line 70, in __private
libprman = ctypes.CDLL(file, ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
File “/opt/houdini/hfs18.0.532/python/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py”, line 366, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
PS: i am trying out other renderers as well: namely redshift and Octane
PS: people have noted this here as well:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/72844/?page=1#post-311806 [
www.sidefx.com]
thanks a lot for your time, i hope someone knows the solution