Custom Environment Copy from Thinkbox GitHub issues

anthonygelatka · August 3, 2021, 8:56am

Hi All,

Is anyone using the CustomEnvironmentCopy from the github repo? It’s been a while since it’s been updated but assume it should be working ok?

Works great for Maya & Houdini but C4D seems to pull all the local user env vars, so always looks for the local tmp folders of the user who submitted the job (which obviously don’t exist on the farm)

I’ve added all the unwated env vars used on the local machine to the block list but not sure if C4D is overriding these somehow?

anthonygelatka · August 4, 2021, 8:15am

ok, so the modification made is here on line 52

github.com

ThinkboxSoftware/Deadline/blob/master/Custom/events/CustomEnvironmentCopy/CustomEnvironmentCopy.py

###############################################################
# Imports
###############################################################
from System import *

from Deadline.Events import *
from Deadline.Scripting import *

import os
import string
#########################################################################################
# This is the function called by Deadline to get an instance of the Draft event listener.
#########################################################################################


def GetDeadlineEventListener():
    return CustomEnvironmentCopyListener()


def CleanupDeadlineEventListener(eventListener):

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Change the line
if string.upper(key) not in unwantedkeys:
to
if string.upper(key) in unwantedkeys:

Then in the event options you can enter the env vars that you want to be copied over.

This works great for Houdini running different versions of render engines and OCIO etc.

Now I need to find a way to pick and select the version of Houdini that it’s using and render using that instead of the version it hits first in the plugin list