I think all is said in the tittle isn it?

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Vincent Thomas (Avalailable early summer 2017)
Senior Lighting Lookdev / Env DigiMatte Artist / Creative Designer VFX supervisor
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Looking for After Effects collect eh?

It does not exist for Houdini. If you used the project feature all your assets should be in one folder so just archive that. But it sounds like you did not bother to copy images into your project texture folder before you referenced them in your Houdini scenes.

You can either write a script that examines all nodes that reference images or just go through them one at a time and locate image references. Once located, copy the file to the local texture folder and then change the filename to reference the folder using either $HIP or $JOB. $HIP/textures/my_stone_tile.tif

There is a HOM function, hou.fileReferences(). I don't think it is guaranteed to be complete, and certainly if you use expressions to reference files (especially expressions involving $F) you may not get a complete list. But it will provide a good starting point. See http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/fileReferences [sidefx.com] for all the details.

@mtucker: Thanks for fileReferences(), that is a great start to writing a collect routine for Houdini.You can detect which SHOP node is referencing an image. I noticed it does not work for File nodes or Attribute From Map. Is fileReference() purely for materials and not other node types?

I tried fileReferences(),some time it will crash houdini and some time get pram is None but the path has something in it

my code:
for J_parm,J_path in hou.fileReferences():
print ‘——————–’
print J_parm
print J_path
print ‘####################’

None
$HIP/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.268/houdini/otls/OPlibDop.hda
####################
——————–
None
$HIP/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.268/houdini/otls/OPlibDriver.hda
####################
——————–
None
$HIP/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.268/houdini/otls/OPlibObject.hda
####################
——————–

vray for houdini, under vray menue, there is pack project