This is driving me crazy, and google is not being helpful.
I am trying to read a parameter from my HDA in a method and it just is not working, it seems so simple but I cant find any examples showing this working. Any help greatly appreciated!

Hey,
pwd returns the reference to the current node from where the function is being called. Since you are referring to the Python module from a node /sphere1/ inside the HDA, you will get an error message as the Sphere does not have the parameter "newparameter".

You could now rewrite the function in your Python module to return a reference to the parent node:

And access the function from the sphere like this:

viklc
Hey,
pwd returns the reference to the current node from where the function is being called. Since you are referring to the Python module from a node /sphere1/ inside the HDA, you will get an error message as the Sphere does not have the parameter "newparameter".

You could now rewrite the function in your Python module to return a reference to the parent node:

def testnode():
    newparametervalue = hou.node("../").parm("newparameter").eval()
    #or
    newparametervalue = hou.pwd().parent().parm("newparameter").eval()
    return newparametervalue

And access the function from the sphere like this:

hou.node("../").hdaModule().testnode()

It looks so obvious now, that works!
thank you. Houdini is the king of giving me imposter syndrome lol