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Setting up json package environments

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Anibrain Tech India
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Hi,
we are trying to setup showwise envrionments in the project.json files for our current pipeline. we are follwing below procedure for the setting up the envs.

Link: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/plugins.html [www.sidefx.com]
Topic: Set package folders dynamically

We put an project.json file under $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/packages or $HFS/packages directory.

project.json:

{
“env”:
{
“package_path”: “/Drive/Project/common/packages”
}
}

In /Drive/Project/common/packages path, below .json files are there.
asset_a.json:

{
“env”: [
{
“Char_a_TEX”: “/Drive/Project/assets/Char_a/published/textures”
},
{
“HOUDINI_PATH” : “/Drive/Project/assets/Char_a/common/otls
}
]
}

asset_b.json:

{
”env“:
{
”Char_b_TEX“: ”/Drive/Project/assets/Char_a/published/textures"
}
}



Issue is that it is not working. We are unable to find the declaired environments Char_a_TEX and Char_b_TEX and also the hda file in the Houdini_path do not show inside houdini.

So can you please look in to above procedure and guide us with proper process.


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package_path is not meant to be set as an environment variable. It's rather a package attribute that needs to be set outside the “env” object like so:

{
   “package_path”: “/Drive/Project/common/packages”

   "env" : [
     {"FOO" : "$HOME/bar"}
   ]
}
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We set like this. It does not work.
{
“package_path”: “/Drive/Project/common/packages”
}
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We set like this. It does not work.
{
“package_path”: “/Drive/Project/common/packages”
}
Make sure “/Drive/Project/common/packages” is a valid path. Here's how I'm using it:

// C:\Users\marcb\houdini18.5\packages\package.json
{
    "package_path" : "c:/temp/foo"    
}

// C:\temp\foo\package.json
{    
    "path" : [
        "/home/bob/bob_tool"
    ]    
}

. hconfig -xa
= = = Houdini Package log = = =
Processing 'C:/Users/marcb/houdini18.5/packages/package.json'

Processing 'c:/temp/foo/package.json'

HFS := 'C:/Users/marcb/DEV/HOUDINI/dev/hfs'
HOME := 'C:/Users/marcb'
HOUDINI_DESKTOP_DIR := 'C:/Users/marcb/Desktop'
HOUDINI_OS := 'Windows'
HOUDINI_PACKAGE_VERBOSE := 1
HOUDINI_PATH := '/home/bob/bob_tool;&'
HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR := 'C:/Users/marcb/AppData/Local/Temp/houdini_temp'
HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR := 'C:/Users/marcb/houdini18.5'
SHELL := 'C:/PROGRA~1/Git/usr/bin/bash.exe'
USER := 'marcb'
Edited by mabelzile - Jan. 7, 2020 09:07:41
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running Houdini 18.0.287 / 17.5.216
log:
Processing: ‘/Drive/Project/common/packages/package.json’
ERROR: Unsupported setting ‘package_path’
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running Houdini 18.0.287 / 17.5.216
log:
Processing: ‘/Drive/Project/common/packages/package.json’
ERROR: Unsupported setting ‘package_path’
“package_path” was added to 18.0.315
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mabelzile
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running Houdini 18.0.287 / 17.5.216
log:
Processing: ‘/Drive/Project/common/packages/package.json’
ERROR: Unsupported setting ‘package_path’
“package_path” was added to 18.0.315


Thank You. It is working in latest build..
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