hou.NodeType class

hou.NodeType is a class representing a type of a node. hou.nodeType() is a function which returns the NodeType object for a node type name.

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Methods

Replaces

Subclasses: hou.SopNodeType , hou.ShopNodeType

You can get a NodeType object from a Node object by calling its nodeType() method, for example hou.node("/obj/geo1").nodeType(). You can also use the hou.nodeType(category, name) function, where the first argument is a hou.NodeTypeCategory object and the second argument is a node name string. You can use hou.nodeTypeCategories to get a dictionary of category names to hou.NodeTypeCategory objects.

# Get the NodeType for the Geometry object

objcategory = hou.nodeTypeCategories()["Object"]
geotype = hou.nodeType(objcategory, "geo")

# Get the NodeType for the Sphere SOP

sopcategory = hou.nodeTypeCategories()["Sop"]
spheretype = hou.nodeType(sopcategory, "sphere")

Methods

addAlias(self, alias): Add an alias for this node type. Allows a node of that type to be created using an alternate name.
addSelector(self, name, selector_type, prompt='Select components', primitive_types=(), group_parm_name=None, group_type_parm_name=None, input_index=0, input_required=True, allow_dragging=False, empty_string_selects_all=True) → Selector: Not implemented yet
aliases(self) → tuple of str: Returns all current aliases for this node type.
allInstalledDefinitions(self) → tuple of hou.HDADefinition: Searches all installed operator type libraries and returns the list of available HDADefinitions for this node type.
category(self) → hou.NodeTypeCategory: Returns the node type category for this node type. For example, for the geometry object, the result would be the object returned by hou.objectNodeTypeCategory().
definition(self) → hou.HDADefinition: Returns the HDADefinition defining this node type, for digital assets.
description(self) → str: Returns a description of this node type. For example, for the geometry object, the description would be "Geometry".
destroy(self): Not implemented yet
hasUnorderedInputs(self) → bool: Not documented yet
hdaModule(self) → hou.HDAModule: Returns the HDAModule object for this node type. If the type is not for a digital asset, the module is empty. Otherwise, the module contents will be user-defined “Python Module” section in the digital asset.
hidden(self) → bool: Not documented yet
icon(self) → str: Returns the name of the icon for this node type.
instances(self) → tuple of hou.Node: Return a list of all the nodes of this type in the current scene.
isGenerator(self) → bool: Not documented yet
isManager(self) → bool: Returns whether this NodeType is a manager node. The manager nodes are /obj, /out, /part, /ch, /shop, /img, and /vex, as well as some container node types, like the SHOP network node type.
maxNumInputs(self) → int: Returns the maximum number of inputs nodes of this type can have.
maxNumOutputs(self) → int: Returns the maximum number of outputs nodes of this type can have.
minNumInputs(self) → int: Returns the minimum number of inputs nodes of this type can have.
name(self) → str: Returns the name of this node type. For example, for the geometry object, the name would be “geo”. The name and the node type category together uniquely identify a node type.
nameWithCategory(self) → str: Returns the name of the node type, prefixed with the name of the node type category. For example, for the geometry object, this function would return "Object/geo". The name and the node type category together uniquely identify a node type.
openEditorDialog(self): Not implemented yet
parmTemplates(self) → tuple of hou.ParmTemplate: Returns a list of parm templates for the parameters on this node type. Note that spare parameters on individual node instances are not included in this list.
presets(self) → tuple of NodeParmPresetss: Not implemented yet
removeAlias(self, alias): Removes an alias for this node type.
saveHDA(self, file_name, template_node=None, HDAOptions options=None): Not implemented yet
selectors(self) → tuple of Selectors: Not implemented yet
setHidden(self, hidden): Not documented yet
sharedObjectPath(self) → string or None: Not implemented yet
showHelp(self): Not implemented yet
source(self) → hou.nodeTypeSource enum value: Not documented yet
sourceFilePath(self) → string: Not implemented yet
sourceNetwork(self) → Node or None: Not documented yet
sourcePath(self) → string: Not documented yet

Replaces

dsoinfo command , opalias command , opexclude command , ophelp command , oppresetls command , opstat command , optype command , optypeuninstall command , otedit command , otgetotl command , otinuse command , otls command , propertyedit command , optypeinfo expression function