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I have a 3rd party plugin that when normally installed lives in C:/Documents/houdini18.5 (for clarity, yes this is on Windows).
When it gets installed it will drop files in the toolbar, scripts/python/plugin_name, and config/Icon folders.
I am trying to set up an automated way to install this plugin in a different directory and source it from there.

For the toolbar and config items this has been simple as I was able to directly add the contents to HOUDINI_TOOLBAR_PATH and HOUDINI_ICON_CACHE_DIR respectively, but I am having trouble sourcing the main part of the plugin.

The original plugin files are in PLUGIN/install/HOU, and I was trying to add that to the HOUDINI_PATH, but when I source it, the plugin doesn't load.

If I take the contents of PLUGIN/install/HOU and create additional folder structures to mimic the C:/Documents/houdini18.5 folder structure (PLUGIN/install/HOU/scripts/python/plugin_name), while continuing to set HOUDINI_PATH to PLUGIN/install/HOU, it loads just fine.

I would like to not have to create these additional folders so I don't have to change the 3rd party plugin's structure. My assumption is that there is a certain environment variable, or combination of environment variables that I can point to that will do this but try as I might to play with the PYTHONPATH and HOUDINI_SCRIPTS_PATH, I haven't had any success. Does anyone have knowledge or experience with this?

I just tried that, but it is still giving me the same error. I dual-boot with ubuntu and was able to get it working on that, so at least its something of a work around to let me get started in Houdini. I still would have liked to get it working on Windows, but I can't seem to find anything that might fix it…

Hello all,

I just downloaded Houdini Apprentice on the recommendation of a friend. It seemed to install alright, but once I opened it up and tried to create a cube, I got:

FATAL ERROR: Segmentation Fault

This happened whether I created it by hitting enter or by left clicking. I tried some of the other objects on the create toolbar, and the strange thing was that it crashed for all of them except the sphere and the tube.

After reading through some of the requirements and other posts online, I am not really sure what's going on at all. Here are my system specs:

Windows 7 64bit
8GB RAM
i7 Q820 processor
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics card (x2, and my drivers are up to date)
Houdini Apprentice 12.5.376

Any advice or suggestions are appreciated, as I would really like to get started on diving into working with Houdini.

Thanks!