Hi all,

I am trying to do some scripting using the PyDev/Eclipse IDE. When I run something simple like this:


print hou.node('/obj').createNode('geo')


from within PyDev / Eclipse using hython.exe as the interpreter, it all seems to work. But I can't actually see Houdini - is there a way to make Houdini visible?

cheers
Patrick

Hi all,

I am again looking at scripting in Houdini using eclipse/pydev
But am still a bit unclear about how this works…

It all seems to work, but I can't see Houdini - it runs in the background. Is there some way of making it visible, with the whole GUI.

Or is there some other way of connecting to a running full GUI instance of Houdini, so that I can see what the script is doing as it runs?

Cheers
Patrick

If you haven't, check out the Python Masterclass: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1412&Itemid=132 [sidefx.com]

Usually this involves making sure you're connecting to houdini instead of hbatch.

Thanks for the the link Jason - I've got a better understanding of how it all works now…

Patrick