Hey,

I want to use the $HFS variable from inside Houdini, but it's set to:




It was set like that by default.

Is there another way I can interpret this variable (or any other variable) to find the absolute path of the install location?

I want to see this:


Cheers

it's like that because Houdini doesn't like spaces in paths…
what are you intending to use the variable for?

I want to know where the install location is because I want to run something outside of Houdini by directly accessing the hython/python files.

I can work around it no problem (by just doing a filesystem scan), but I thought I would just ask around here about the “~” anyway.

Cheers

that path will still work to get the location.

Oh ok, I'll try to work directly with $HFS then and I won't evaluate it (so it doesn't return that shorthand).

you can also use python
try this is a python shell:
print hou.getenv(“HFS”)
print hou.getenv(“HOUDINI_VERSION”)

Oh perfect!

Thanks for that

I think it's like that because Windows originally only allowed 8 characters in file/directory names (why would you ever want more, “visionary” Bill Gates asked) and you still see that (known as 8 dot 3 naming) in Windows sometimes. No idea why HFS is doing that though, lots of Windows env vars have spaces and are much longer…

Think of it as a blessing. There is still stuff that breaks when spaces are in the path.