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.

[animatrix]

But the shapes you copied has to match existing ones by name like rect while looking like a circle. Did you do that?

[esoids]

9 hours ago, animatrix said:

But the shapes you copied has to match existing ones by name like rect while looking like a circle. Did you do that?

Yes, I copied circle, bone etc and renamed them to rect.json in the user folder. But they all show up as the standard rectangle like in the screenshot. 
So again just to remain sane: I went into the Houdini install folder, copied different jsons (like bone, circle) to Documents\houdini21.0\config\NodeShapes and renamed them to rect.json just to test. But they all render like the standard rectangle shape in Houdini (round corners). Am I missing something here? 

[animatrix]

Did you also turn this option off?