BlurdevEnvironmentVariables

Introduction

Blurdev is aware of these environment variables.

If True is in the settings.ini column a default is provided in blurdev\resource\settings.ini.

Details

Key
Description
settings.ini

blurdev_path
If present the active environment name will be set to TEMPORARY(This is not saved in prefs and disappears on close.). The temporary environment will have its path set to the value. blurdev.osystem.startfile will add this to the environment variables passed to the spawned process.
False

blurdev_error_email
If blurdev_path is present the temporary environment will have its environment variable set to this. This way you can receive error emails from the temporary environments. blurdev.osystem.startfile will add this to the environment variables passed to the spawned process if a email is set for the active environment.
False

legacy_config
Used to override the config.ini file loaded in maxscript. If not provided it will load c:\blur\config.ini. See c:\blur\offline\maxscript\treeGrunt\Lib\startup\blurStartupMaxLib.ms for more details.
False

bdev_studio_name
Used to populate the studio name in maxscript and softimage macros generated by treegrunt.
True

bdev_default_author_email
The email address placed in the softimage tool macros.
True

bdev_user_guide_url
The base url for tool documentation.
True

bdev_templ_[name]
Any keys starting with bdev_templ_ are used to replace values in the IDE's templates (Ctrl+Space). Any references to the [name] section will be replaced with the value. bdev_templ_log_file_loc will replace any log_file_loc found in a templ file. See blurdev\resource\templ\py_log_to_file.templ for a example._
True

bdev_path_prefs
Local location for storing the prefs xml files. Used if shared=False is passed into blurdev.prefs().path. This is the default.
True

bdev_path_prefs_shared
Network location for storing prefs xml files. Used if shared=True is passed into blurdev.prefs().path. By default for offsite installers this value is set to the same as bdev_path_prefs.
True

bdev_include_[name]
Any environment variables starting with bdev_include_ have their value added to sys.path. See registerPath(path) in blurdev\settings.py for more details.
True