How to make all nodes circular?

[yisiqu]

http://i.imgur.com/RnyRamH.png

[Jafaar]

Hello, you have to select your node and use the shortcut "Z" to acces the differents node shape.

[animatrix]

Hi,

The second one is from my own desktop 

In my case I just override the rectangle shape by my custom node shape and turn off the custom node shape option. I place my own circle shape as rect.json under:

HOUDINI_USER_DIR\config\NodeShapes

[ftaswin]

Or inside $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/scripts/OnCreated.py

Add this:

kwargs["node"].setUserData("nodeshape", "circle")

If the folder or file doesnt exists, create one

[yisiqu]

That's the most elegant thing I've ever seen.

Thanks, Ferry Taswin!

[animatrix]

Be careful explicitly changing node shapes though. I used my setup at ILM and MPC with production files but only I would see the nodes as circles, everyone else saw them as what they were i.e. default or custom shapes they set. So I didn't upset anyone messing with their shapes which would be a big problem otherwise.

[yisiqu]

Yunus, thanks for the reminder.

[esoids]

Is this still working in H21? I can't seem to find a working combination. 

[animatrix]

12 hours ago, esoids said:

Is this still working in H21? I can't seem to find a working combination. 

Yes if you have custom node shapes under HOUDINI_USER_PATH/config/NodeShapes

Then it will work. Make sure to turn off "Use Custom Shapes"

[esoids]

1 hour ago, animatrix said:

Yes if you have custom node shapes under HOUDINI_USER_PATH/config/NodeShapes

Then it will work. Make sure to turn off "Use Custom Shapes"

Thanks! This is very weird. 
I deleted my pref folder.

I added only Documents\houdini21.0\config\NodeShapes where I copied the bone.json and renamed it to rect.json. Then turned off Use Custom Shapes. 

This is the result: 

 

 

 

It uses the default rectangle but not the shape I put there.