No Vray with custom HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR

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Hi,

I have Houdini 18.0.308 working with the latest nightly vray_adv_43000_houdini18.0.279_20cdd59_5950. Nice!
But to easily manage multiple machines (workstation and rendernodes) with the same prefs, houdini.env, vray install,... I'm trying to centralize

I created a new User Variable for HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR with value E:\_Houdini\_Configs\houdini__HVER__
This seems to be working for the most part except for Vray. When starting Houdini, Vray has disappeared.

I noticed that, unlike earlier (beta)versions, with these newer installers, nothing is added to the houdini.env anymore. So I'm guessing I should look else where, but where?

Cheers,
Tim

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hey there,
package files are used when running the installer. Those are located in the Houdini install folder, e.g. C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 17.5.391\packages

Nothing has changed regarding the zip version - you can grab an example environment file from an old build, or check the unpackedZip/docs/vray_for_houdini.json file for the environment variables setup.

Please ping me if you hit any issues setting things up.

Cheers!

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Hi Gosho,

Thanks for your quick response!
Simply copying these lines into the houdini.env did the trick:

# V-Ray for Houdini Begin
#
VFH_ROOT="E:\_Houdini\vray_for_houdini_18"

VRAY_APPSDK="${VFH_ROOT}/appsdk"
VRAY_OSL_PATH="${VRAY_APPSDK}/bin"
VRAY_UI_DS_PATH="${VFH_ROOT}/ui"
VFH_HOME="${VFH_ROOT}/vfh_home"
VFH_PATH="${VFH_HOME}/bin;${VRAY_APPSDK}/bin"

PATH="${VFH_PATH};${PATH}"
HOUDINI_PATH="${VFH_HOME};${HOUDINI_PATH};&"

HOUDINI13_VOLUME_COMPATIBILITY=1
HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK=1
#
# V-Ray for Houdini End

Cheers,
Tim