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Houdini for mac6/7/2023 To check this, type ‘ echo $SHELL‘ and if the terminal prints the message ‘/bin/zsh’ then we will be editing the. All in all, Apple changed things up for newer Macs so if your Mac is relatively new, you will be editing the. Once inside we need to check where you can edit/add your environment variables which will either be in the.To do this, you can navigate to your ‘ Spotlight Search‘ in the top right and search ‘terminal’. That is it! Your OCIO color variable will be recognized by Houdini next time you open.įor Mac, things appear to be a bit more complicated in that you don’t have a dedicated UI for setting variables but in reality, it’s as easy as typing a few lines of code.This will tell Houdini how to set up the color profile. Please notice the config file found at the end. For my machine, it looks like ‘ D:/_OCIO_Color_Profiles/aces_1.2/config.ocio‘. And make the Value the path to your ACES version we stored earlier along with the config file found inside like so, ‘ C:/your/path/to/aces_1.2/config.ocio‘.We simply need to add a new System variable so click on ‘ New‘. The top is the User variables and the bottom is the System variables. From here, you will see two boxes with variable lists.Once inside the ‘System Properties’, you will see a button towards the bottom called ‘ Environment Variables‘ which you will then click on.For Windows users, navigate to your ‘Search Bar’ (bottom left) and type in ‘system environment’ and amongst the results, click on ‘ Edit The System Environment Variables‘ found in the control panel.This process varies slightly for different operating systems so click on your OS and follow the steps: 2) Create System Variable That Points To Our ACES Library If your pipeline requires multiple versions of ACES, you can just store each version there and change which version you are using per project. ![]() So for my case, it will live on my ‘ D:/_OCIO_Color_Profiles/aces_1.2‘. I personally have an extra SSD that I store files on so I will keep it there. Once you have the folder selected, let’s relocate it somewhere on our system that we can reference later. For this tutorial, we are going to be linking ACES 1.2 to Houdini. Next, unzip the folder and once unzipped, look inside the folder and then you will see a few folders with different versions such as, ‘ aces_1.0.3’, ‘ aces_1.1’, ‘ aces_1.2’ and a few others. To download, click the green code button found near the top which reveal a dropdown menu. First, let’s go to ’s GitHub and you can look through the available ACES versions.
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