Please make Gaffer "Portable"

[MJH1000]

Great Add-on Gregzaal!

Unfortunately I use Blender Portable across 4 different computers. The "data/gaffer" folder is always generated on the C drive which means each computer needs to re-build any changes in that directory.

Please change "data/gaffer" to a subfolder of the HDRI folder selection in the prefs, thanks!

[gregzaal]

Good idea, but I'd rather make it separately customizable since there can possibly be multiple HDRI folders, and someone may want to have the data folder somewhere else instead like a synced dropbox folder.

[MJH1000]

A separate customizable folder is even better. Keep up the great work.

[Felina-Lain]

I was trying to find the code to do that, I suppose it's in the init.py, but so far I'm having no luck locating the exact code I tried searching for "path" or "settings" to see where those might be used or saved, but I'm not finding anything that looks like it (if I do manage to do it, would you want me to send you the changed code?)

[gregzaal]

The way Gaffer currently has the data folder configured and used, it's not possible to change this via a user preference (the data folder is read before the add-on registers its preferences).

However as a workaround, you can manually hard code the path you want on line 120 of constants.py. By default this looks like:

data_dir = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(bpy.utils.resource_path("USER"), "..")), "data", "gaffer")

And you could change it for example to:

data_dir = "C:/whatever/file/path/you/like"

If on Windows, be sure to use forward slashes (/) or double backslashes (\\). Single backslashes, which you'll get if you copy-paste a folder path, will likely give you some errors.