Hi, we are using deadline in a small team context, so no dev guy…
Using $HIP is mostly fine but now I need to use $JOB…
How can I set $JOB in deadline with each render queue ?
Value for $JOB should live inside every .hip file. As default it’s pointing to your user folder (in windows), but when you set a project it will point to that projects location provided that you saved the .hip file after setting it. You can also manually view and modify it from “Aliases and Variables”
How are you using it?
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I always assumed $JOB wasn’t saved in hip files, so I was using It by setting manually in houdini.env.
If $JOB IS recorder in .hip files that’s a good news but that become a hard path no ? so this is killing the purpose of using a variable who could be different between computers no ?
Yes, but you can always change it and as long as everything else is relative to it then it won’t matter. I can’t think of any way of having a project path that isn’t at some level a hard path.
Thanks @panze! I agree that the workflow of editing it in the “Aliases and Variables” is the right route so it’ll also work outside of Deadline if you’re sharing across workstations with different paths too.
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