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Hello there, I use a lot of python tools to speed up my workflow. But lately for some reason my Houdini shelf got messed up and a few turned into undefined? Is there any way to fix this? when I left click it said "Menu item filter expression should return an integer" Thank you for...
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Hi, I am a senior Houdini artist, but a intermediate about python script. I am looking for flipbook tool because original one is so inconvenient that every time we need to type file name and saving path. Thus, I wonder if we have the following tool: 1 click a shelf tool. 2 pop up a custo...
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Hello friends, I've got a questions I couldn't find an answer for in docs but maybe somebody will know. I've been messing around with my custom shelves and by accident I managed to remove all the tools I had in my custom shelf (stupid me). Later on I found out I haven't really deleted them...
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Hi everyone! I'm starting to get into Python 2.7 for Houdini Indie (17.5) before jumping into Houdini 18 with Python 3, and I've been working in a flipbook tool until now everything is being okay but now I've found that I can't recover the camera settings/flipbook settings after generati...
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Hello there, I'm pretty new in Houdini and want to script a measuring tool that I can use from the tool shelf or via a keyboard shortcut. So, I want to have the following behavior: Click shelf button ("ruler") Select first Point or Edge in Scene View (with edge/point snapping... -
Hey guys, I am currently stuck with a tool I am writing. I have a json file that contains data from Clarisse and I wrote a shelf tool that re-creates Clarisse's scatter in Houdini. I went the path of creating an Add SOP with the python script with all the points from Clarisse and t...
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When I create a shelf tool containing a vellum solver node, all the nodes within the solver disappear once I try to use the tool. The same does not happen when I create a tool that has a normal dopnetwork.
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How can I open a Python panel from a shelf item/icon, In a new floating panel?
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Hi everyone! I am completely new to Houdini and have a few questions about Ocean and FLIP. In the attachment you can see a simple “boat” with a FLIP (Guided Ocean Layer) connected to it, combined with a “Small ocean surface” from the shelf. 1. How would I go about blending the FLIP and th...
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Hello , I'm trying to customize my houdini layout to put a 2 shelf on top of each other like the image below in softimage , but i can't figure out how to do that , is this possible ?
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Hi guys, I'm trying to create a shelf button that quickly create a parameter into the selected node. To start, I'm happy with the initial solution, taken from https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=22539 n = hou.selectedNodes()[0] group = n.parmTemplateGrou...
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Hi i just installed Houdini 14 but as you can see in the picture the render view and the shelf are not showing, i can click on them but they're invisible, please how to fix this? thanks
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Hi, I´m looking to integrate Houdini inside our custom pipeline. We already have a pipeline script working inside Maya and I´m trying to replicate it in Houdini. I started with interface creation with Qt and Pyside. I´m in the early stages but already have some doubts. In maya I can create a s...
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Hello, How can I set additional custom paths for shelf files? Right now all custom tools are stored at $HOME/houdini13.0/toolbar & packaged tools must be somewhere in $HFS. But I would like to setup a different location (let's say where I store all GitHub files), in addition to the custom p...
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Hello, I created few custom shelf tools for learning purposes and added them in tab menu of various contexts. I have deleted most of them from the shelf but all of them still exists in the tab menu. How can I remove them? Also how can I remove the tab menu itself or rename it? Thanks
