Accessing the houdini environment via the terminal/cmd

Purpose

If you would like to use the command line to run certain Houdini programs and commands, you must set up what's called an "environment". This means that Houdini will be able to find all the directories and programs that it needs in order to run the commands you specify. A common use for this is sesictrl, the non-graphical license administrator

Windows

Select Command Line Tools from the little triangle to the right of 'Launch' button on the Houdini section of Launcher.

Alternative Methods:

Programs -> Side Effects Software -> Houdini 21.0.xxx -> bin -> hcmd.exe.

You can also do a system search for Command Line Tools.

Linux

1. cd path to Houdini installation
2. source houdini_setup

Example:

    $ cd /opt/hfs21.0.xxx
    $ source houdini_setup

This is useful to put into login scripts so you can have the environment setup upon login.

If you only need to access sesictrl then you may find it directly in /usr/lib/sesi.

cd /usr/lib/sesi

./sesictrl

Mac

• Applications -> Houdini -> Houdini 21.0.xxx -> Utilities -> Houdini Terminal 21.0.xxx