Hey community,
I've recently noticed how people often struggle with editing code in Houdini and decided to build a plugin to help Houdini users here. As a software engineer, it's painful to see how poor the current Houdini code editing tools are. I know you can use an external code editor, but I assume it might be not always convenient.
If it's the case for you, please feel free to try the Mad Coder plugin. It's free and available on GitHub [github.com] (you can download it from the releases page [github.com]).
Features:
- Python linter and formatter
- Python type checker
- Python autocomplete/suggestions
- Run the script (it will cook the node automatically)
- Debug console (where you can immediately see the errors and print() logs)
- Font size and family customization
- VEX support (coming soon)
You can use it on Windows, Linux and MacOS. If you have any suggestions in mind or find a bug, please report it on Github here [github.com].
Code editor plugin for Houdini
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