particles and python

[Cannoth]

Ok, so its late and my brain hurts. Hopefully this will be an easy question for all you fantastic people.

I'm writing my first python script to deal with some particles.

#cycle through all particle points

for checkPoint in geo.points():

#Want to evaluate the current particle's ID number

currentID = !!what do i type to get that value!!!

I haven't seem to be able to find the answer to that. So i'm turning to you guys

Thanks,

C

[graham]

You can get the ID by using the hou.Point.attribValue() function:

currentID = checkPoint.attribValue("id")

[Cannoth]

Thanks for the reply. I was close to getting it right.

New question for you guys. In the process of writing this script, I'm implementing it through creating a New Operator Type.

The operator only wants to be brought into the sopnet not the popnet. Can I not make a python node inside a popnet?

[graham]

Unfortunately Houdini does not currently support Particle python operators; only SOPS and Objects. The alternative would be to attempt to do it using VEX or VOPS, or a surface operator after your POP network.