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Setting up houdini for the command line

Last updated Nov 2, 2022 Edit Source

  1. set up project paths
  2. cd into houdini install dir
  3. source terminal command
  4. pull in vars from setup
  5. save to env file
  6. set up aliases
  7. launch new shell with vars from env file

https://towardsdatascience.com/best-practices-for-setting-up-a-python-environment-d4af439846a

https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/02/installing-python-in-local-directory/

https://joaoventura.net/blog/2016/embeddable-python-osx/

https://xon.sh/

Sounds like your houdini.env is not properly configured. Make sure your HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH always ends with @/otls, and isn’t redefined later by some other line. README.MD has detailed instructions on how to configure your environment.

Let me try to lay out some of the rules: