Dominiek De Ridder

Thanks probbins, I'll definately look into that.

There's so much to absorb …

Hi edward, …, I'm back.

Yes, it seems you're right : when the path reads $HIP/… it doesn't work, and when it reads $HOME/… or CDocuments and Settings/… it does work OK.

No I know why it always worked once I had placed all files on the C-drive, because after having done so I navigated to them via the C …

I guess I'll have to learn about that in the docs (if it is mentioned there), because I think it's important to know about this if you want to move files around after they have been created.

Thank you for helping me , greetings, Dominiek.


EDIT : Yesterday when I was doing a tut from Digital Tutors, I wanted to create a working copy of one of the project files I had downloaded.
Those project files are commercial *.hip-files and when I saved it with Apprentice HD and reopened the *.hipnc-file then there was no geometry.
Now I know that in the “Geometry Node” I have to check the path from the “Geometry File” : when it says $HIP/ there's no geo and when I change the path to C… then the geo is loaded.
So it's not because of the non commercial aspect of Apprentice as I first suspected.

Anyway, I got it working now … :wink:

I think your problem then is because you saved it with $HIP in the filename when you actually want it expanded.

Haha, I have no clue what you mean.
Total newbie I am.
What do you mean by “expanded” ?

EDIT : I'm doing a Digital Tutors tutorial right now and without such tuts Houdini would be impossible for peeps like me.
I guess when stuff like “expanded” isn't mentioned somewhere then it stays in the dark for me, haha …

EDIT 2 : I'm going to have to break for tonight (it's 22.31 hours already) so subsequent post will be for tomorrow.
Thanks for helping a poor noob … Dominiek.