Creating groups and attributes from objname

[hampuseh]

Hello!

I currently have a tool that imports a file, in the file there will always be an x amount of primitives named “Thing_0, Thing_1,..” etc. So what I want to do is to group these by name in one go. So I want to have a group from each specific Thing. So the primitive with “Thing_0” name will be in a group called “Thing_0” etc.
Other than that I would also like to apply a value attribute to each group. Thing_0 group would have a value 0 and a Thing_1 would have a value of 1, etc. 

I can do this manually but I want this to be done procedurally since the Thing amounts will be different for each file.

Thanks in advance!

Edited January 28, 2019 by hampuseh

[Andrea]

For creating groups based on different names/values you can use the partition SOP: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/partition.html

For apply the values there are different options. For sure you can use the groups previously created for assign them. The values of thing_0 will always be 0, thing_1 will always be 1 and so on or you need to be able to set them if needed?

If you don't need to set them manually you can run a loop on the groups and assign the current iteration value for each group.

[vtrvtr]

What you mean by "named"? If you mean they have an attribute called "name" (or any attribute for that matter), that's already a group for all intentions and purposes. If you really want to make it a normal group, you can wrangle something like

setprimgroup(0, s@name, @primnum, 1); 

As for setting the value, something like

i@attrib = atoi(s@name[-1])

 

 

[hampuseh]

Thanks for your answer!

I don't think I was clear enough when I tried to describe my problem. 
 

How I want to do it is to first assign a attribute value to each respective primitive named "thing_0 = value 0, thing_1 = value 1 etc" 

I then know that I can partition and create groups by that attribute value. However I don't know how to assign that attribute value to my primitives procedurally. 

At this time I have made  4 different attributecreates and manually assigned value 1-4 and then grouped them with the partition sop. This works but not procedurally.

[hampuseh]

3 minutes ago, vtrvtr said:

What you mean by "named"? If you mean they have an attribute called "name" (or any attribute for that matter), that's already a group for all intentions and purposes. If you really want to make it a normal group, you can wrangle something like

setprimgroup(0, s@name, @primnum, 1); 

As for setting the value, something like

i@attrib = atoi(s@name[-1])

 

 

Sorry for not being specific enough. What I mean with "named" is the objects objname file path. Looks something like this: /stuff/stuff/stuff/stuff/Thing_0. 
But maybe if I could convert the path obj filepath to a singular name your approach would work aswell? Thanks for your reply.

[Andrea]

Yes you can use both VEX or Python for that. Both can split the path based on the last "/" and take the last part.

With VEX: 

string thing_name[] = split(s@path,"/");
s@name = thing_name[-1];

 

With python (if you have previously created the name attribute): 

node = hou.pwd()
geo = node.geometry()

# Add code to modify contents of geo.
# Use drop down menu to select examples.

for prim in geo.prims():
    path = prim.attribValue("path");
    name = path[path.rfind("/")+1:]
    prim.setAttribValue("name",name);

 

[hampuseh]

Thanks alot you two!

 

I got it working with both of your help