Environment Variables issue

[pedromosh]

Hi guys,

I'm using Houdini indie 18.0.460 with Redshift 3.2

When I add the env. variables for redshift in the houdini.env, the mops library and the sidefx labs automatically stop working. Anyone add this problem?

 

Thanks

 

 

[Sepu]

is probably an error probably `&` that guy you have somewhere repeated twice or isn't in the right place, etc, just guessing here.  The best thing to do is if you post you .env file here. 

[pedromosh]

Houdini.env

 

#
# Houdini Environment Settings
#
# The contents of this file are read into the environment
# at startup.  They will override any existing entries in
# the environment.
#
# The syntax is one entry per line as follows:
#    VAR = VALUE
#
# Values may be quoted
#    VAR = "VALUE"
#
# Values may be empty
#    VAR =
#

# Example:
#
# HOUDINI_NO_SPLASH = 1

#MOPS
MOPS="D:/Dummy/Tools/MOPS"
QLIB="/path/to/qlib"
HOUDINI_PATH=$HOUDINI_PATH;$QLIB;$MOPS;&

#QLIB
QLIB="D:/Dummy/Tools/QLIB/otls"
HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH=@/otls;$QLIB/base;$QLIB/future;$QLIB/experimental

#REDSHIFT
HOUDINI_DSO_ERROR = 2
PATH = "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/bin;$PATH"
HOUDINI_PATH = "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/18.0.460;&"

#Denoiser
HOUDINI_NVIDIA_OPTIX_DSO_PATH = C:/Users/PMAIA-PC/Documents/houdini18.0/optix

[toadstorm]

You're redefining HOUDINI_PATH there at the end without including $HOUDINI_PATH; to make sure you're adding your new path definition to the existing one. Your last HOUDINI_PATH line should be:

HOUDINI_PATH = "$HOUDINI_PATH;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/18.0.460;&"

 

If you want to know more about the guts of editing the environment file, I wrote an article about this on my blog: https://www.toadstorm.com/blog/?p=678

That said, I'd recommend you switch to using packages instead of using the Houdini.env. They're a lot easier to configure. I have another article here you can read about packages, and it comes with a sample Redshift package you can use: https://www.toadstorm.com/blog/?p=722

[pedromosh]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the help.

| HOUDINI_PATH = "$HOUDINI_PATH;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/18.0.460;&"  | worked just fine.

I'm going to take a look into the packages you've suggested.

Cheers