I used to have this working but had to reinstall windows. I can't seem to get this working now.

I have a directory where I have all my hda files:
L:\LuckyPause\HoudiniLuckyPause\houdini18.5\otls

Using the windows 10 environment variable editor thing I have set
HSITE = L:\LuckyPause\HoudiniLuckyPause

I've used the texporter in houdini to echo $HSITE and it comes back correctly.
Yet none of my hda assets are being loaded. Do I need to make a package json? I though houdini would already look in $HSITE?

Any help is super appreciated! Thank you!

Phew! Answering my own question here in case anyone else runs into this problem.

Problem was I had "Use OPlibraries Files to Find OTLs" checked under the Asset Manager configuration tab.

The documentation doesn't seem very clear to me but apparently houdini won't scan $HSITE/houdini18.5 etc. for *.hda files if you have this OPlibraries checked. I don't ever remember changing this setting before though so I'm not sure if sidefx changed the default state of this checkbox or the function changed.


Hopefully I won't run into a problem where this conflicts with plugins or something down the line.