Environment variables

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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