alessio Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Hi there! I'm having problems importing camera and geometry data from pftrack and syntheyes into houdini. The matchmoving software exports a .geo file and a cmd file. When I run the script using a typical windows path (ex: D:\Folder\...\....\file.cmd) houdini output an error saying "Source failed, D:\Folder does not exist". I then copied all the exported data into a folder on my desktop, and tried to run the script using the Desktop icon in the "Select File...\Locations" window. So when I select the file from here houdini can import the camera and locators (but not the geo or the sequence image to use from COPs as a backgroud... ...) but I noticed that it puts the variable $JOB in front of the path (ex: $JOB/Desktop/.../file.cmd). Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks so much! Cheers, Alessio EDIT: ...ok, now I have the plate in the background. I've created a new copnet (at scene level) and read the seq from here. This way it works...uhm...but if I create the copnet at image level houdini says that can't read the files... Edited October 23, 2008 by alessio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hey Alessio Welcome to odforce! $JOB is a environmental variable used within houdini, this is setup under ur "alias and variables menu" (under EDIT) - then under Variables so if u set this to fill in what is missing when refering to $JOB/Desktop/.../file.cmd if the path is actually c:/my computer/Desktop/../file.cmd Then ur $JOB needs to be = c:/my computer/ excuse my lack of windows knowledge, but this is cross platform, cause essentially when the script is launched it will substitute the $JOB with ur entry to make up the whole line as it should be :$JOB/Desktop/.../file.cmd = c:/my computer/Desktop/../file.cmd Hope this fixes the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alessio Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 Hey AlessioWelcome to odforce! Hey aracid! Thank you! Glad to be here! ...and thanks a lot for your reply! I've changed my $JOB path to my working directory and now it imports everything...thanks for your help! Cheers, Alessio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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