Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mo is back from berlin where he spent a few days with Colors And The Kids
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One of the questions tackled there was how to set up a scene file that'd automatically load when Houdini started up. Turns out Houdini looks for a few script files to automatically execute on startup.

In this tut we create a 123.py file which contains the command to merge a scene file into your new scene when Houdini launches:
hou.hipFile.merge("C:/Users/Your_User/Documents/houdini19.5/ mydefault.hip")

00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Creating a .hip Containing Background & Cam
01:50 - Houdini's Startup Scripts
02:48 - Creating A Startup File
04:31 - Infamous Last Words