Hello there. I'm willing to launch houdini from a shell and from a certain directory. There doesn't seem to be ‘Houdini’ or ‘houdini’ alias by default to lauch the application. Could anyone tell me?

Thanks.

You first need to source the proper script in Houdini's installation directory.


cd /opt/hfs10.0.465
source houdini_setup
cd bin
houdini

You could also add “houdini” to your $PATH. This can be done by adding something like this to your ~/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATHopt/hfs10.0.495/bin

Thanks Alan. I would like to launch from ../cookbook/pyqt/part1 directory.

My current workaround was to make an alias to run ‘/opt/hfs10.0.495/bin/houdini’. Is this a bad way to do what I want?

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Thanks Alan. I would like to launch from ../cookbook/pyqt/part1 directory.

My current workaround was to make an alias to run ‘/opt/hfs10.0.495/bin/houdini’. Is this a bad way to do what I want?

You definitely should source houdini_setup first, like Alan said. After this, $HFS/houdini/bin is in your path, so you can go anywhere and start it with “houdini” command. Plud there are dozens of different helpful commands for your disposal.

Will try that tonight. Thank you to both.