Anyhow, solved it. Thanks Stephen for getting my brain on track. And thanks everyone else for chipping in!
bash script #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 maketx $1 --resize -o $2 Inside Softimage import subprocess script = "/home/stefan/makenice.sh" file_in = "/home/stefan/test.jpg" file_out = "/home/stefan/test.jpg" subprocess.Popen( "%s %s %s" % (script, file_in, file_out), shell=True) best regards stefan On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I rather not since that might break softimage. And I would have to do > > that in each machine that has softimage. > > no, the point is that when you launch maketx from softimage, it > inherits's softimage environment, so you should launch a shell script > instead that will set the environment variable as appropriate and then > launch maketx. That cannot break softimage, you're modifying the > environment for a child process. processes are separate. > -- *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d
