How To uh... Open a Project?

[evanrudefx]

Hi,

I am new to houdini, but it seems like this would be simple. How do you open a project using file>open? My file is greyed out. It seems I would go file>open>then select project?

Thanks in Advance

Edited November 1, 2016 by ejr32123

[davpe]

never seen greyed out scene file like this... should work the way you are used to.

[Mandrake0]

uhhh that looks strage. 

is the project on a external storage and uses samba?

if yes you need to change the access method:  HOUDINI_ACCESS_METHOD

need to set in the file:  houdini.env

you can see more information here: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/env

 

 

Edited November 1, 2016 by Mandrake0

[Atom]

You can also double click directly on the .hip file. Or Drag and drop it onto an open Houdini session.

[evanrudefx]

53 minutes ago, Mandrake0 said:

uhhh that looks strage. 

is the project on a external storage and uses samba?

if yes you need to change the access method:  HOUDINI_ACCESS_METHOD

need to set in the file:  houdini.env

you can see more information here: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/env

 

 

Hey!

That must be it. I have my project on p: drive, which is a network drive at my school. I tried saving a project on c: drive, and I can open it just fine. I will look into what you said and see if I can get it working on p:. 

 

Thanks!

Edited November 2, 2016 by ejr32123

[evanrudefx]

Hey,

I set the houdini_access_method to "2" and now it works properly. 

Thanks