Hi,


I want to implement proper Houdini-conformant behaviour for my tools, so if my tool creates a new operator, I want the user data to reflect that (so if the user cycles through node name displays using the “N” key, instead of “Manually Created”, the name of my tool would be displayed).

So far I figured out that the “___toolid___” and “___toolcount___” user data are used for this. The “toolid” is self-explanatory, but I'm not sure what does the “toolcount” represent. Anyone care to give a hint?

cheers,
imre

That information is automatically updated every time hou.Node.createNode() is called from a viewport shelf tool. toolcount is incremented on every invocation of the viewport shelf tool.