I am trying to run Houdini as a stand alone application with houdini, simmilar to how mayapy (for maya) is able to run the application without using the GUI.

All I'm looking to do is setting some parameters on a hou node and saving it out as a .obj. I'd like to do this as fast as possible and that explains why I don't need the GUI.


Is this possible? If so how would I go about it?

In your shell, run hython, or hbatch.

jsmack
hython

Thanks, exactly what I am looking for!

Stupid question, this runs everything the same as the GUI (in Apprentice)?

i73
Stupid question, this runs everything the same as the GUI (in Apprentice)?

yep!

arctor

i73
Stupid question, this runs everything the same as the GUI (in Apprentice)?

yep!

Hmmm, by any chance do you know if http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini13.0/hom/commandline#idm47503603268592 [www.sidefx.com] is up to date?

I'm trying to load in the hou module in python 3.6 & 2.7 it's failing because it can't find the library _hou. In the ‘python2.7libs’ directory it just has _hou python extension, any suggestions?