[Sidefx-houdini-list] shop_materialpath error message

[Peter Bowmar]

I just hit this exact same thing actually, and submitted a "please have a
more verbose error message" to SESI.

I worked around it by using Python (speed of execution is not important in
my case) with a try/except around it. Which worked but was waaaay more
typing than was actually needed.


On 17 May 2018 at 00:30, Floyd Gillis <floyd at afcg.com> wrote:

> Hi Jordan,
>
> Yes, once the file is open it does work OK.
>
> It's just "annoying" and looks bad when someone else goes to use it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Floyd
>
>
>
> On 5/17/18 4:02 PM, Jordan Walsh wrote:
>
>> Once the file is opened does it work ok?
>> If so, i always thought this type of warning was just an order of
>> execution thing. So when the file loads the expression is evaluated before
>> houdini manages to load your material node. I could be wrong but i have had
>> heaps of those types of errors that don't really break the scene.
>> No idea if there is a better way of dealing with it though!
>> Jordan
>>
>> On Thu, 17 May 2018, 6:10 am Floyd Gillis, <floyd at afcg.com <mailto:
>> floyd at afcg.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello list,
>>
>>     Getting an annoying error message when putting an expression in the
>>     "shop_materialpath" field of an object.
>>
>>     Example: `chs("obj/CONTROLS/shad_path")`/my_shader_name
>>
>>     Where: "shad_path" is a string being set in "/obj/CONTROLS"
>>
>>     The expression is expanding correctly, the material is being read and
>>     displayed correctly in the viewport, and is rendering correctly
>>     with mantra.
>>
>>     But, on starting-up houdini I always get something like...
>>
>>     /Load warnings for test.hip//
>>     //Warning: Bad parameter reference: "obj/CONTROLS/shad_path" in
>>     parameter /obj/test/shop_materialpath.
>>     /
>>     Is there something different about string formatting in the
>>     "shop_materialpath" field?
>>     Any suggestions as to why I'm getting the error messages?
>>
>>     Thanks for any info.
>>
>>     Floyd
>>
>>     P.S.  I am simplifying this example a bit... all the elements are
>>     in on OTL.
>>     Houdini FX Version 16.5.463 on linux
>>
>>
>>
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Cheers,

Peter B