cs00bren Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 hello a weired question can you run houdini with a command like houdini.exe -file.hip. that loads houdini and the file. This is for a java front end that i'm writting to control a landscape creator. cheers bren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plan9 Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 greets! if your env variables are set correctly you should be able to type this at a csh prompt: %houdini FartV666.hip it will load houdini and a specific file... did i understand you correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs00bren Posted April 13, 2003 Author Share Posted April 13, 2003 cheers i think i found away to do it anyway i used the string "C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 5.5.52\bin\hview.exe" "C:\file.hip" and it worked fine cheers anyway bren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 If you have file associations set up correctly so that you can double-click on a hip file in Windows, then you can simply do this: start myfile.hip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 if you're starting Houdini - or hview.exe in this case, you might want to try to use an env variable instead of the full path, like $HFS...this way users are not tied to one build... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs00bren Posted April 15, 2003 Author Share Posted April 15, 2003 arctor: could i have a little bit more information as i don't know what you mean by a env variable. cheers to ever one bren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 env > environment variable... like $home, $job, etc Houdini has one calle $HFS - for Houdini file system (I think) if you can use that in your application then it won't matter what version of Houdini a user has because the $HFS will point to the install directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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