From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [Q+A] Combustion has different PATHs since discreet -> autodesk
   Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:39:22 -0400

> Since Autodesk took over Combustion 4, we noticed that some of our
> machines have Combustion installed in a different location, causing
> our renders to fail on those new machines.
>
> So our old machines have Combustion installed in:
>     C:/Program Files (x86)/discreet/combustion 4
>                            ^^^^^^^^
>
> ..and on our new machines, Combustion is installed in:
>     C:/Program Files (x86)/autodesk/combustion 4
>                            ^^^^^^^^
> Is there some way to set up the submit-combustion script to
> run combustion regardless of which path setting is used?

	Yes, you can just cram all the possible PATH settings
	into the top of the submit-combustion.pl script, and the
	operating system will try them all.

	So for instance, find these lines in the submit-combustion script:


if ( $G::iswindows )
{
    # WINDOWS
    $ENV{PATH} = "C:/Program Files/discreet/combustion 4;$ENV{PATH}";
}

	..and change it so that it reads:


if ( $G::iswindows )
{
    # WINDOWS
    $ENV{PATH} = "C:/Program Files/discreet/combustion 4;$ENV{PATH}";           # discreet product path
    $ENV{PATH} = "C:/Program Files/autodesk/combustion 4;$ENV{PATH}";           # new autodesk product path
    $ENV{PATH} = "C:/Program Files (x86)/discreet/combustion 4;$ENV{PATH}";     # (x86 versions of above)
    $ENV{PATH} = "C:/Program Files (x86)/autodesk/combustion 4;$ENV{PATH}";
}

	..and that will try all 4 combos of discreet vs. autodesk,
	and with or without the (x86).

	Note: due to how we're 'inserting' the directories into the PATH
	one at a time, the OS will try finding the executable in reverse
	order as shown above, giving precedence to the *last* PATH setting,
	and then working upwards. (ie. bottom-to-top as shown above)
	The first place the OS finds the executable, it will run it
	from that location.