passing custom variables at startup

[Lucavfx]

Hello,

I'm looking into how to pass custom variables at startup so that they would show up in the alias-variables menu. houdini variables listed in hconfig are passed fine however I was wondering how to pass custom ones such as version take etc.

I searched a bit on the forum unsuccessfully.

Thanks

L

[Lucavfx]

Ok I get I can do this through 123 and 456 files.

But am a little confused with HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH:

I'm using HSITE to specify a show specific enviroment, This works well because the otls are picked up automatically in this order HFS HSITE HOME.

However if I wanted to specify an additional otl folder I would need to add that to HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH; the problem is that it automatically overrides the otls paths found in hfs hsite and home.

In other words I would just like to append an extra otl path without figuring out the HFS HSITE HOME otl paths again. How would you go about doing that?

Cheers

L

Edited July 15, 2011 by Lucavfx

[Lucavfx]

I'll answer myself,

to append you should do this:

set HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH=@/otls;YOURPATH\otls