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Please email me at henry@motionoperators.com so we can schedule a video call. I'm going to need to look at your system live so that I can figure out why the directory isn't updating.

Now that's interesting! See how it's adding "C:/Users/Henry/Projects/VFX/MOPS" to your HOUDINI_PATH? That means that the package file you saved isn't the one being read. Did you happen to copy that original package file anywhere else on your drive? Maybe somewhere in the Houdini installation directo...

The command is just to see what value is returned. I'm trying to make sure that the MOPs directory is actually being added to your HOUDINI_PATH. You don't need to restart... just hit enter after entering each of those commands, and show me what comes back.

Okay. From within Houdini, go to the Python shell (ALT+SHIFT+P) and enter the following, one at a time: import os print(os.getenv("HOUDINI_PATH")) Then show me the result of this command. Alternatively, if you'd like me to help you via video chat, please email me at henry@motionoperators.com and I'l...

Weird. Can you please try temporarily removing your houdini.env file and see if MOPs loads correctly?

Okay, so that HOUDINI_PATH declaration is overwriting anything that the package file is doing.

You just need to add $HOUDINI_PATH; to the beginning of the HOUDINI_PATH declaration, similar to what's already being done with $PATH on the previous line.

Okay, that looks right. Can you please also show the contents of your Houdini.env file?

Hi RedWolf,

Can you please show me where on disk you placed the package .JSON file?

Henry

Packed primitives / instances can't be deformed unless you first unpack them, turning them into regular geometry. This has the unfortunate side effect of removing all your local transform data and losing the benefits of instanced geometry. For this specific effect, what I'd recommend doing is unpack...