If I use the $HIPNAME variable in a Redshift ROP an have it create a directory and the actual scene name is "testscene", Redshift will create a directory named /testscene/ automatically.
If I submit the same scene with the same variable through Afanasy it will tell me the directory does not exist, even if Redshift had created it already. When I click "create" in the warning dialog from Afanasy and Afanasy will create a directory called /testscene.hiplc/.
As you can see Afanasy generates a different string from the variable than Houdini or Redshift would. So when a cache directory path contains the $HIPNAME variable (like $HIP/$HIPNAME/xxxxx.bgeo), Houdini/Redshift would look for /sim/testscene/xxxxx.bgeo but when submitted through Afanasy it would look for /sim/testscene.hiplc/xxxxx.bgeo which does not exist.
I have the render from temporary file option turned off, so that is not it.
Look here. All directories with ".hiplc" are created by Afanasy. The other are creatd by Houdini/Redshift:
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