Houdini HIP path definition

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Hi All,

Is there a way to use $HIP and “Submit Houdini Scene” together?

As you might know DL or Houdini instances that work on DL nodes convert $HIP path definition to a local path. Instate we need to use $JOB or custom variables.

Thanks in advance.

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Unfortunately not. ‘Submit Houdini Scene’ will copy the scene file into the DeadlineRepostiory directory and then into the Worker’s temp directory. Which then means the hip file will not be where it’s supposed to be and all references that use $HIP won’t work.

For example, if $HIP is supposed to resolve to //file-server/scnenes/myscene.hip, it’ll instead resolve to C:\ProgramData\Thinkbox\Deadline10\workers\myworker\jobsData\64026d4f7c58df9e643f9287\myscene.hip. So this’ll break any and all paths to assets that rely on the $HIP token.

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