Hello everybody,

Is there a preference somewhere to tell Houdini to keep the current desktop when opening a new scene and not take the desktop saved within the scene we are opening?

Thanks in advance

I don't know myself, but I found this thread that has some suggestions:

http://forums.odforce.net/topic/14337-is-there-a-way-to-override-the-desktop-used-to-create-a-hip-file-when-opening-them/ [forums.odforce.net]

Usage: houdini.exe
-geometry: specify window width, height and x and y offsets
-h: output this usage message
-f: force the use of asset definitions in OTL files on the command line
-j: set maximum processors to nproc
-s: specify starting desktop by name
-n: start up in Never cook mode


so basically:
houdini -s nameOfDesktop fileYoureOpening.hip

Thanks for those tips guys.

I think I will log a request to sideFx to add an argument to the hou.hipFile.load() command or to expose a user preference.