How to add new entries to the TAB menu that customizes existing OPs?

[magneto]

Hi,

 

I don't know if they are presets but I mean the TAB menu in H14 has entries like "Point Wrangle" or "Primitive Wrangle" but they don't exist as actual SOPs. When you use them, they create an AttribWrangle initialized to specific values.

 

How can I achieve the same thing to customize the existing SOPs and VOPs?

 

 

Thanks

[ayidi]

An otl that runs script that generates the SOPs and VOPs.

 

To make it easy use: hou.node('/path/to/node').asCode()

[ayidi]

To help a bit more:

 

Editor Operator Type Properties > Tools:

- Remove (import soptoolutils ... )

- Insert your script that generates an existing SOP

[magneto]

Thanks but doesn't that require you to modify existing SOPs? I don't want to modify the built-in SOPs. Also there is no Primitive Wrangle etc inside the Tools tab of AttribWrangle or anywhere else in that dialog.

[edward]

The TAB menu items are the same thing as the shelve tools. In shelf tool, you can control where it is visible. To see how "Primitive Wrangle" is done by looking in $HH/toolbar/ExtraTools.shelf. The easiest way to do your own then is to create a new shelf and then add the tools that you want. The Label is what shows up in the TAB menu.

[Guest mantragora]

Search for:

$HFS\houdini\toolbar\Extra Tools.shelf

file.

 

More about shelf using shelf files => http://forums.odforce.net/topic/17626-custom-tab-submenu-and-selector-to-not-reuse-selection/

[Guest mantragora]

I was first!

[ayidi]

Thanks but doesn't that require you to modify existing SOPs? I don't want to modify the built-in SOPs. Also there is no Primitive Wrangle etc inside the Tools tab of AttribWrangle or anywhere else in that dialog.

 

Sorry it was not clear, I meant creating a New Operator Type... and put the code there to generate the nodes. Using a shelf tool also works as pointed out above but doesn't have the benefits of otls.

[magneto]

Thanks guys, the shelf technique worked great