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BGEO reader library and Katana Op

What's in the box?

• libbgeo - shared library that contains all of the guts for reading BGEO files.
• BgeoIn - plugin Op for reading BGEO files into Katana.
• ginfo - command line utility that will print some basic information about the contents of a BGEO file.
• check_bgeo - command line utility to check the compatibility of a BGEO file with the library and Katana Op. It will also check some of the data in the BGEO file to ensure it will work in Katana (i.e. checking for NaNs in volumetric data).

Building and Installation

The provided Makefiles or only intended for demonstration purposes and are probably not a viable end solution.

1. Setup Houdini environment. One way to do this is to use the houdini_setup script provided with Houdini. Technically only the HFS environment variable needs to be set and the sesitag utility needs to be on the PATH to compile.
2. Set KATANA_LOCATION environment variable to the path of your Katana installation.
3. Run make install in the project root. You can also run a parallel make i.e. make -j8 install

The built products are placed in the install directory under the project root.

1. Place install/lib/libbgeo.so somewhere in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
2. Place install/Ops and install/Plugins in the KATANA_RESOURCES.
3. Place install/bin/check_bgeo and install/bin/ginfo somewhere on the PATH if you want to use them.

When using the library, LD_LIBRARY_PATH should include $HFS/dsolib of the houdini version used to build the library.