Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Hi, I noticed that under Linux the cooking process is showed with a popup windows.. instead of logging into the "status bar" like its in windows... is it possible to have same under Linux?.. this is just because when loading scenes.. which have been saved on a frame other than 1.. and which needs cooking prior to being able to get into GUI.. I have to press "interrupt" in the popuppped windows instead of just pressing ESC button like i do in windows... i know this is a stupid question .. but.. :) second question .. how do I add some Path into houdini variables? so when I have to Load (file SOP) things.. i get $MYPATH also .. instead of having to browse the entire disk everytim from $HOME. cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 not sure what you mean by not getting the popup on Windows..I get it... as for the menu thingy...look in your $HOME/houdiniX.X folder for a file called jump.pref, if it isn't there make one and put stuff in it like this: $SHOT_LIB_DIR $HOME $RNDR_DIR $GEO_DIR $COMP_DIR $JOB/prod/seq/ etc very handy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 not sure what you mean by not getting the popup on Windows..I get it...as for the menu thingy...look in your $HOME/houdiniX.X folder for a file called jump.pref, if it isn't there make one and put stuff in it like this: $SHOT_LIB_DIR $HOME $RNDR_DIR $GEO_DIR $COMP_DIR $JOB/prod/seq/ etc very handy 26622[/snapback] WOW .. yeah indeed really handy .. its exacly what i was looking for.. thanks man.. about the popup windows.. u're right.. but in Windows pressing ESC is enought actually while in Linux is not.. and actually.. when i have heavy loading scenes... (like when i forget to save 'em at frame 1:p) ... i just press ESC since GUI wont appear until cook is finished.. that's what i mean. thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 ah it could be that your window manager thamagig in linux is setting the focus of your mouse so that Houdini doesn't 'hear' your ESC key - try clicking into the Houdini window then hitting ESC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 hm... nope.. seems that even by clicking the "cooking windows" and pressing ESC does the job ... well. not a big problem actually.. i was just wondering ... btw i'm using gnome 2.12 on a Fedora Core4 Distro. cheers and thanks again for the jump.pref trick.. that did helped a lot cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekenny Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 you can always launch houdini -s <desktop> and specify a desktop without a viewport. If there isn't a view port there won't be any cooking. The only thing which will get placed in to RAM are the OPs themselves and all the ops required to make them... and any locked SOPs. FileSOPs and sims won't cook until you ask them to cook, which is what the viewport does. -k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 In addition to Ken's post, houdini -n will start Houdini in Never mode so nothing gets cooked. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 In addition to Ken's post, houdini -n will start Houdini in Never mode so nothing gets cooked. Cheers! steven 26684[/snapback] oh.. this is nice... *but*... since I'm on Linux .. I usually open houdini.. and then Load the scene... and apparrently.. the "refresh status" is saved within the scene.. cause i tried your suggestion here.. and yeah.. houdini starts in "Never" mode... but once i load the scene.. it goes in "Always" as it was when the scene was saved... this is ok or its in my preferences somewhere maybe? cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecue Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 *but*... since I'm on Linux .. you can't go to your directory and type houdini -n foo.hip? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 you can't go to your directory and type houdini -n foo.hip? 26689[/snapback] .. true.. thanks edit: ok .. sinc ei'm using a simple bash script which goes to /opt/hfs.blabla/ then source the Houdini_setup_bash.. and then runs houdini ... (to have a desktop icon).. i added houdini -n $1 to my bash script.. so i can now even drag and drop scene files into deskop icon and it opens the scene (cooool).. and in "never" mode (even cooooler ) thanks a lot.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 If I am not in a mistake, by default Houdini on linux doesn't use the ESC key unless you run it with the threaded UI enabled. You need to do it so Houdini can use a thread to manage the ESC key press while the app is cooking. To enable it you have to export the environment variable HOUDINI_ENABLE_LINUX_THREADED_UI In bash: export HOUDINI_ENABLE_LINUX_THREADED_UI=1 If you enable the threaded UI you must disable the tablet support, both aren't compatible: export HOUDINI_ENABLE_LINUX_TABLET=0 I hope this works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 WOW .. THAT was exactly what i was looking for ... now i dont get any popup window for Cooking process... everything is wrote down in the status bar... thanks for that. cheers. p.s. is there any ...place where to find all this environments settings? maybe houdini -h? lemme see... I'm sure there're many others usefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 WOW .. THAT was exactly what i was looking for ... now i dont get any popup window for Cooking process... everything is wrote down in the status bar... thanks for that.cheers. p.s. is there any ...place where to find all this environments settings? maybe houdini -h? lemme see... I'm sure there're many others usefully 26713[/snapback] Of course: hconfig - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 More beauty: hdox://houdini/content/base/config_env.html But the hconfig command offers some intersting options too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunch Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 WOW .. THAT was exactly what i was looking for ... now i dont get any popup window for Cooking process... everything is wrote down in the status bar... thanks for that.cheers. p.s. is there any ...place where to find all this environments settings? maybe houdini -h? lemme see... I'm sure there're many others usefully 26713[/snapback] hconfig -a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 yeah actually i already watched at that Environment settings help ... when I had to set envs to use Houdini with the old crappy ATI card... sorry for being so lame.. but actually i'm not.. i just forget things easly sometimes ..... but thanks cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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