Houdini URL resolver

[odtcf]

My studio runs Houdini in both Windows and Linux environments. It's been a really big problem that Windows and Linux have different file path formats. I was wondering if Houdini can resolve URL based on external files so that in both OS, the HDA paths would be saved as:

hda:/myDigiAssets/myDA01.otl

The Windows configuration would resolve it to:

C:/somePath/myDigiAssets/myDA01.otl

The Linux configuration would resolve it to:

/somePath/myDigiAssets/myDA01.otl

Thanks so much!

Tony

[graham]

You can do it using custom FS helpers as detailed here.

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk12.5/hdk_fs_addcustomhelper.html

[lukeiamyourfather]

There are environment variables that can be used on the system to specify the path to use for OTL library.

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.5/basics/config_env

HDK is not necessary to obtain this functionality. I used to work at Reel FX, cheers!

[crunch]

You can do it using custom FS helpers as detailed here.

http://www.sidefx.co...stomhelper.html

Even without the HDK, you can use http://URL (there's a custom FS handler for http - it's likely not super efficient though

[odtcf]

Thanks so much, Graham!!