Environment variables

Environment variables

Name

Description

Name

Description

ATOMS_PYTHON_BINDING

set it to "Atoms" to  force the usage of the atoms python binding instead the procedural one in batch mode

ATOMS_DEFAULT_DATA 

Env variable pointing to an atoms scene json file or an empty json to customize the atoms scene json loaded by default.

ATOMS_PLUGINS_PATH

Atoms plugins path

ATOMS_DATA

Env variable set to a path to the default Atoms data folder shipped with the software

ATOMS_GSLS_PATH

The path to the glsl folder

ATOMS_GLSL_DISABLE_LIGHTS

Disable the lights in the openGL shaders. If you have an AMD video card and have issues displaying openGL set this variable to 0.

QT_PYTHON_API

set it to 'pyside' to use PySide or 'pyside2' to use PySide2

ATOMS_KATANA_FONTS

The path to the Katana fonts folder

ATOMS_KATANA_PROCEDURAL

The path to the Atoms Katana procedural

ATOMS_PROCEDURAL_PLUGINS_PATH

Atoms Procedural plugins path

ATOMS_GL_DISABLE_COMPUTE_SHADERS

Disable the openGL shaders. Set it to 0 to disable the new display features using OpenGL 4.2

ATOMS_ICONS

The path to the Atoms icon folder

ATOMS_PYTHON_PLUGINS_PATH

Atoms python plugins path

ATOMSARNOLD_PROCEDURAL_PATH

Path to the arnold procedural

TOOLCHEFS_DISABLE_FORCE_LICENSE

Disables the fallback to higher priority licenses. The value for disabling this behaviour is "1".

ATOMS_AGENTS_DISABLE_ATOMS_MAYA_LOAD

(Maya Only) Atoms Agents will try to load AtomsMaya plugin when loaded, define this environment variable to prevent the automatic loading of AtomsMaya

TOOLCHEFS_DISABLE_LICENSE_DIALOG

Set this environment variable to make sure AtomsMaya does not show the license dialog even when no license is found.

ATOMS_HOUDINI_NO_SCENE_INITIALIZATION

Prevents Houdini from checking out an Atoms license at Houdini startup. When users define this env variable they will have to run the following code every time they open a new scene using Atoms:

from AtomsHoudini.utils.initializer import initialize initialize()

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