Houdini change startup folder

[akI*]

Hi,

im new to houdini and try to step into the first basics.

The first thing i want to change is the default startup folder. If i fire up houdini it will make a folder in my /home/user/houdinixx.x and i dont want houdini to make it in this place. I want to change this default startup folder to /home/user/MyPrograms/Houdini/houdinixx.x

I have already taked a look into the Edit->Aliases and Variables section but if i change it here it doesnt seem to affect anything.

Is there a way how i can change that directory?

P.S.: Oh i forgot im on linux 64bit

[kleer001]

Maybe create an empty default.hip in the folder you want to start in and then open that instead of a vanilla houdini. That way you'd get $HIP for free.

[Guest mantragora]

Set HOME environment variable on your system that will point to specified by you directory. It should override default setting that comes with Houdini.

How to set environment variable on Linux:

http://www.cyberciti...variable-linux/

Edited October 4, 2013 by mantragora

[akI*]

Okay well i tried to create am empty default.hip but thats not readable for houdini.

How can i set that home variable? Hconfig shows me this, but im not sure how to change that.

./hconfig
HFS									   := '/usr/Houdini'
HOME									  := '/home/User'
HOUDINI_DESKTOP_DIR					   := '/home/User/Desktop'
HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR						  := '/tmp'
SHELL									 := '/bin/bash'
USER									  := 'User'
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[Guest mantragora]

I just updated my previous post with the link.

[akI*]

DOH! Was my mistake... i tried to change it with $HOME which was (of course) not working. I refer to the online documentation and edited $HOME to HOME in my launchers. Now its working, and its not even working for houdini but also for other programs.

Thanks a lot