Hello,

Just out of curiosity, is the bclip file format open or documented anywhere? I'm experimenting with a utility that will be generating a large number of clips and the ascii format is easy to generate but the binary format could save some space and be more efficient to work with.
I'm not using the HDK for this utility because I don't want to consume a license. Also I'm working in Scala and while I *am* interested in someday creating JNI bindings for the HDK it's not in scope for this little project.


Cheers!

Chip

Look in $HFS/houdini/public.

Thanks edward.

I got my hopes up at first glance in the CPD folder but sadly it's only concerned with the ASCII format. I guess bclip is just not public domain?

Oh well.

It's there for me in H13 … Try looking the H13 daily build. Search for “BINARY FORMAT” in CPD.txt.

Wow. It certainly is. I was looking in 12.5 but I can't say for certain that it isn't also described there.

Thanks!

It was only recently documented in H13.