Settings Job Environment Variables

[JokerMartini]

Is it possible to set job environment variables with a custom event. Or do you have to do this in the JobPreload script? The downside to the job preload script in this solution is that I would have to create a py file for every Plugin type.

The custom event would blanket all plugins in a single file.

[anthonygelatka]

this is what I’ve been looking at recently and have been using a modified version of the GitHub script

Custom Environment Copy from Thinkbox GitHub issues

ok, so the modification made is here on line 52 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 t…

This grabs the env vars in use and sends them with the job which works great for maya / houdini with different versions of centrally installed plugins.

Seems to fail on C4D jobs though where the local user env vars get sent anyway and it trys to write temp stuff to the submission users folder which isn’t on the nodes.

[Justin_B]

There is the GlobalJobPreLoad file. It does what is says on the box, and is a JobPreLoad file for all plugin types.

[anthonygelatka]

Does this just add the env vars you specify in the pyfile? Or can it work like the Event and pull the info from the submission?

I’m just wondering if I’d be better off using this per plugin instead of an Event and this way I’d avoid the c4d issue I’m having

[Justin_B]

You can read submission info from the JobPreLoad files, as they get a deadlinePlugin object passed to them. You can grab the job from it with job = deadlinePlugin.GetJob() and from there you can read submission information and set environment variables accordingly.