Houdini includes a large number of small utility programs in
the bin directory under the install location.
Many of these programs are useful for batch processing scripts.
You can get usage information for most programs in $HFS/bin with
program -h
Or, in some cases,
program -
Programs
| chchan | Copies channel collection to/from action channel format. | |
| chcp | Copies channel collection file to another format. | |
| chinfo | Prints information about a channel collection file. | |
| claudio | Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from audio formats. | |
| clchan | Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from action channel format. | |
| clchn | Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from channel collection format. | |
| clcp | Copies CHOP data (clip) to another format. | |
| clinfo | Prints information about a CHOP data (clip) file. | |
| dsmmerge | ||
| dsparse | Parses and displays dialog scripts. | |
| gconvert | Convert between Houdini polygon formats. | |
| gdxf | Converts DXF polygons to/from Houdini format. | |
| geps | Converts EPS files to Houdini polygon format. | |
| gfont | Install/remove/edit files in $HFS/houdini/fonts. | |
| giges | ||
| ginfo | Prints polygon file statistics. | |
| glightwave | Converts LightWave files to/from Houdini format. | |
| gplay | Geometry viewer. | |
| gptex | Makes a ptexture image file from a geometry file. | |
| greduce | Reduces polygons in a file. | |
| gwavefront | Converts .obj files to/from Houdini format. | |
| hbrickmap | Converts an i3d file or volume primitive geo/bgeo file into a Pixar brickmap file. | |
| hcollapse | Collapses a directory structure. | |
| hcpio | ||
| hexpand | Expands hip files into a directory structure. | |
| hscript | Command line HScript interpreter. | |
| i3dconvert | ||
| icineon | Convert images from 10-bit Cineon format to an 8 bit format. | |
| icomposite | ||
| iconvert | Converts image formats. | |
| icp | Isolate a region of an image in a new image. | |
| iflip - Flip Image | ||
| ihot | Scans an image for video-unsafe colors. | |
| iinfo | Outputs information about an image. | |
| imdisplay | Sends an image to an mdisplay window. | |
| iprint | Prints the RGBA values for an image as text. | |
| iquantize | Reduces the number of colors in an image. | |
| isixpack | Generates an environment/reflection map from six images representing the six sides of a cube, or a cross image. | |
| izg | Converts Z-depth images to 8-bit grayscale images. | |
| izmatte | Composites RGB and Z-depth images. | |
| mcacclaim | Converts an Acclaim motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s). | |
| mcbiovision | Converts a BioVision motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s). | |
| mcmotanal | Converts a Motion Analysis TRC motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s). | |
| mcp | Convert an image sequence to a movie file. | |
| mids | Creates Houdini shader assets for the mental ray shaders in a .mi file. | |
| minfo | Prints information about movie files. | |
| spy | Shell utility for navigating the UNIX filesystem. |