Tom Norman

For anyone else coming across this thread, the "RfH: Could not initialize Renderman" error when IPRing is due to conflicting PRMan and Houdini versions. The libtinfo5 dependency was satisfied but I was still getting this error. I was trying to render in Houdini 18.5.408 with PRMan for an older Houdini 18.5.351. Installing 18.5.351 for use with PRMan got everything working as expected.

For anyone else trying to find a way to do this and just coming across this thread. You can just get the parmTemplateGroup from the node's type definition and set the instance of the node to match:

Hey guys!

We’re a small team working on a short sci-fi animated film, and we're taking a different approach than most by making the whole film with Houdini and redshift! We're committed to create as much as we can procedurally (modeling, animation and texturing). This is because we know how essential proceduralism is to making this film possible, without compromising the scope.

Here's an initial look at some of the work being done on the film. We'll share more soon!


Prototyping some things for planet Lush.


The four species of rocket in the film: Speeder, Tank, Dexter, and Acrobat.

There's more on the kickstarter campaign page, check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocketmigration/rocket-migration [www.kickstarter.com]