NetworkUIUpdate - Threading + Timer

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Hey there,

I've been struggling trying to understand houdini's event loops and getting around updating a networkview some timestep. I also haven't been able to find docs about hdefereval. So was curious if anyone might have any tips on how to update function to evaluate some X timestep. As this seems to be almost pseudo random updates but I probably don't understand some foundational knowledge of threads and processes.


Here's an attempted example of a node updating pos, every x time. but its not quite right. (press enter to cancel out of in python shell, and I recommend not running too long as I assume there's more going on than I realize)

 

import hou

import threading

import time

 

def create_object():

    obj_node = hou.node("/obj")

    geo_node = obj_node.createNode("null", "test_object")

 

def object_move():

    geo_node = hou.node("/obj/test_object")

    geo_node.move((0, 0.5))

 

def update_thread():

    cancel = False

 

    def update():

        if cancel:

            return

 

        print("Update function called")

        object_move()

        timer = threading.Timer(.1, update)

        timer.start()

 

    timer = threading.Timer(.1, update)

    timer.start()

    input("Press Enter to cancel the thread")

    cancel = True

    timer.join()

 

create_object()

update_thread()