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Setting Houdini preferences

Setting Houdini preferences - Houdini Tutorial

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Setting Houdini preferences

- We're gonna take a look at the three main places to set preferences in Houdini. This is good to know so you can modify things about your scene or the overall way Houdini is working. So first we go to Edit, Preferences, and then we get the Houdini Preferences window. We can navigate to the different panels here, either with these little arrows or this drop-down menu. You can see there are quite a few different preferences. There's a lot in here, if we go through. One of the great things is that I often don't change even that much. There's a lot of subtle stuff. I'm sure some people get really intricate in terms of customizing things to be a specific way, or for certain production needs. But one of the main things that I like to make sure to change is under the Save options. There's three different Save methods. One would be Overwrite File, so every time you save your file, it just overwrites it. One would be Increment Filename where it would up the version number from one to two to…

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