Houdini 12 Reference Stand-alone utilities

Command line HScript interpreter.

Provides a Houdini shell. This is the non-graphical interface to a motion database (i.e. .hip file). Any number of motion files or .cmd scripts may be specified on the commandline. Multiple motion files are merged together (see the mread command).

Options

    hscript [-h] [-q] [-u] [-v] [file.hip ...] 
    
-

Displays this help message.

-q

Quiet: suppresses the display of version information.

-u

Enables use of the Ultimatte COP.

-v

Specifies verbose handling of renders.

hscript runs as a stand-alone application that allows access to all of Houdini’s Scripting commands that are usually available in Houdini’s Textport. Please see: Ref > Scripting for the complete scripting language reference.

To get a list of valid keywords, type help at the prompt.

To get syntax help on any command, type help commandName at the prompt.

Type quit to end a session and return to shell.