malik Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Hi! starting a new job in a Cie whitcht is new to Houdini and still working on Windows, I'm stuck with this very annoying problem that my hip_files dont render properly on the render farm if I use $HIP qitch is not corectly interpreted in Hbatchwhen working with mapped drives. Anyone knows a workaround without writing the full path in every output & input ??? Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 (edited) yeah, don't use $HIP on a farm. $HIP is the file houdini opened in the current session. most farms will copy yout file someplace other than where it came from to render, which means $HIP is out the window as a useful variable. best practice is to not use it at all. you can make your own variable "MYHIP" or something and update it as needed. or make variables for whatever data you're using -- like if you're reading geometry from some dir under your hip dir, make a $GEODIR directory and use it. really, once you get to the stage of having a render farm, you probably need to figure out a real pipeline with a pre-determined directory structure for all the frames/geometry you'll be reading and writing. $HIP-centric directories won't get you very farm, imo. Edited March 25, 2016 by fathom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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