Houdini

houdini

Houdini has a wide range of content creation tools that meet the needs of artists creating Film, TV, Gamedev and more.

Detected by hython, hconfig, hrender, hscript | macOS, Linux, Windows |www.sidefx.com

Sync it houdini.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Houdini in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/houdini/*/ Sync

· ~/houdini*/ Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/houdini.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "houdini"

name = "Houdini"

homepage = "https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/"

description = "Houdini has a wide range of content creation tools that meet the needs of artists creating Film, TV, Gamedev and more."

icon = "SimpleIcons:houdini"

# Every name here comes from SideFX's own documentation. `hconfig` is in

# https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/basics/config.html ("run the hconfig -ap

# command" to print the current path assignments); `hython` is in

# https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/commandline.html ("a Python shell that

# ships with Houdini"); `hrender` and `hscript` are two of the stand-alone

# utilities in $HFS/bin listed at

# https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/utils/. The GUI's own launcher is not

# listed: that page enumerates the $HFS/bin utilities and does not name it, and

# guessing a binary name is not what this field is for.

detect = ["hython", "hconfig", "hrender", "hscript"]

# https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ref/env.html on HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR: the

# default is "$HOME/houdini__HVER__" on Windows and Linux, with __HVER__

# replaced by the MAJOR.MINOR version at runtime, and on macOS

# "$HOME/Library/Preferences/houdini/__HVER__" when that directory exists,

# falling back to the same $HOME/houdini__HVER__ otherwise. Both are real

# locations rather than two names for one place, so both are listed and a

# consumer skips the one that is absent; the version is part of the directory

# name, hence the glob. [preferences] is ~/Library/Preferences and is macOS-only,

# which is exactly the platform that spelling belongs to.

# https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/basics/config.html names what lives there:

# houdini.env, the environment file Houdini reads on startup (and which

# HOUDINI_NO_ENV_FILE disables), and $HOME/houdini‹X›.‹Y›/.palette for the

# colour palette.

paths = [

"[preferences]/houdini/*/",

"~/houdini*/",

]

exclude = []

secret = []

# No machine_lines: houdini.env is a list of `NAME = value` assignments and some

# of them (HOUDINI_PATH, HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH) do hold absolute paths into one

# machine's disk, but which of a studio's variables are machine-local is a

# per-site question this catalog cannot answer, so no rule is invented here.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/houdini. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.