It would be great to have a centralised official document on setting up Houdini in a production pipeline.. I am currently setting HOUDINI_PATH in houdini.env so that the whole studio can have access to OTLs, prefs, presets, toolbars etc
Is it bad practice to append to HOUDINI_PATH? (some posts seem to suggest so..)
I am using windows and I have mimicked the folder structure that is in My Documents\houdini##.# folder. I do have access otls that are stored within the otls folder however I can't seem to get the preferences working.
My houdini.env is currently:
HVER = 16
HOUDINI_PATH = S:/3D_globalSettings/houdini/$HVER;&
I've added a hchannel.pref.nosave to the specified folder and i'm trying to set the start and end frame, i.e.:
pref.frame_end := 1201;
pref.frame_start := 1001;
Is this the best approach or should I use hou.putenv in a 123.py for example?