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With Houdini being such a customizable piece of software, there's lots of different places to change settings.
Houdini provides almost limitless customization, it's easy to be overwhelmed at first as there's lots of different places where you change settings.
 
Outlined below are the steps I take to customize Houdini to my liking.
Outlined below are the steps I take to customize Houdini to my liking.



Revision as of 00:25, 14 October 2021

Houdini provides almost limitless customization, it's easy to be overwhelmed at first as there's lots of different places where you change settings.

Outlined below are the steps I take to customize Houdini to my liking.

Get the Slate Theme

Slate Theme from Odforce Houdini Color Window

Changing the Desktop Layout

Simplifying Node Shapes

Changing the Splash Screen Image

Some aspects of Houdini can only be customized through Setting Houdini Environment Variables.

You can customize the following Houdini Environment Variables by editing $HOME/houdiniX.x/houdini.env

HOUDINI_SPLASH_FILE = ~/hsplash/hsplash_014.png
HOUDINI_SPLASH_MESSAGE = WELCOME ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}\\nVERSION: ${HOUDINI_VERSION}
HOUDINI_UI_QUEUE_SIZE = 2500000
HOUDINI_NO_START_PAGE_SPLASH = 1
HOUDINI_MAX_FILE_HISTORY = 32
HOUDINI_ENABLE_OLD_PRESETS = 1
HOUDINI_USE_OTL_AS_DEFAULT_HDA_EXT = 1