Michael Heberlein

Thank you, everyone! With your information, I was able to

• create a houdini.pref(not .nosave) file in a plugin
  
• make sure it's positioned first in HOUDINI_PATH
• include the user preferences via #include “$HOME/houdini16.5/houdini.pref”

Now there's only one issue remaining: I'd like to replace 16.5with a variable but $HVER(from sdugaro's example) isn't working for me. Maybe that's a custom variable? I found HOUDINI_VERSIONbut that's the long format (e.g. 17.0.337 instead of 17.0). Any tips?

Cool, thanks - looks like all three options can be the right choice, depending on the situation.

Thank you, I'm going to try this!