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JL Tools was updated June 14, 2025. Now with over 90 tools to help you in your Houdini tasks.

New Version coming soon July 2026

Quick Install

Downloading the JLTools.zip

After your purchase get your downloaded JLTools.zip file and drop it in your packages folder. In your Houdini Directory. If the packages folder doesn’t exist just create one in all lowercase.

*C:\\Users\\**Your UserName**\\Documents\\houdini20.5\\packages*

In some cases you might have Houdini installed with OneDrive Just make sure its the correct path.

*C:\\Users\\**Your UserName**\\OneDrive\\Documents\\houdini20.5\\packages*

Extract all the contents from your JLTools.zip so you have the JLTools folder and the JLTools.json file.

Open up the JLTools.json file and change the user name to your name.

{
  "name": "JLTools",
  "env": [
    {
      "var": "JLTools",
      "value": "C:/Users/{UserName}/Documents/houdini20.5/packages/JLTools"
    },
    {
      "var": "PYTHONPATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/python",
      "method": "append"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_TOOLBAR_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/toolbar",
      "method": "append"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_UI_ICON_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/config/icons",
      "method": "append"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_OTLSCAN_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/HDAs",
      "method": "append"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/pypanels;&",
      "method": "prepend"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools;&",
      "method": "append"
    },
    {
      "var": "HOUDINI_STARTUP_PATH",
      "value": "$JLTools/startup/python;&",
      "method": "prepend"
    }
  ],
  "hpath": "$JLTools"
}