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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.
Extract all the contents from your JLTools.zip so you have the JLTools folder and the JLTools.json file.
The JLTools.json file should now have $HOUDINI_PACKAGE_PATH so no need to add user name. If you have an older version of the JLTools.json. just copy and update your JLTools.json file with the code here and you should be good to go.
{
"name": "JLTools",
"env": [
{
"var": "JLTools",
"value": "$HOUDINI_PACKAGE_PATH/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"
}
We will need to install ffmpeg to get the Playblast tool to work.
First head over to the website and download the windows version of ffmpeg Download FFmpeg
Download the latest win64 version.
After downloading the zip file extract the contents. Just for simplicity rename your folder to ffmpeg. I do this because the zip file usually has a really long name.
Please the ffmpeg and all of its contents in a place were you can located so when you open up Playbast you can find the ffmepg.exe file to reference.
This is how I have mine saved in the Playblast settings.
If you want to use the GIT downloader you will want to install GIT.