Hi,

So, I have a lot of time on the train to read. I have a tablet on which to read. I do not have internet on the train however

Is there any way to grab the SESI Help and be able to read it offline? I tried just naively copying the Help from the distribution but that didn't work very well.

Cheers,

Peter B

If there is such an option that would be really handy!

Only problem right now is that you need to have Houdini installed on laptop which you carrying with you in train. Otherwise Help > Houdini Help works fine.

I made an “offline” version of the docs by copying the help dir (except for the examples folder, you don't need it), then renaming all of the _index.html files to index.html (at least I think that's what I did).

That way, you don't have to be running the little help server. The down side, you can't use the search functinality when reading the docs like this.

goldleaf
I made an "offline" version of the docs by copying the help dir (except for the examples folder, you don't need it), then renaming all of the _index.html files to index.html (at least I think that's what I did).

That way, you don't have to be running the little help server. The down side, you can't use the search functinality when reading the docs like this.

Sorry to bring this back, but where exactly is the help stored? I looked for html files and couldn't find any...

Docs are stored in $HFS/houdini/helpand in your HDAs, but they're in a plaintext Houdini Wiki format. You can generate a static site from them, devoid of search function, and serve it with any of the available HTTP servers.
Such site will have to be regenerated whenever you update anything in the docs or update your Houdini version.

Read this: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/help/central.html#static [www.sidefx.com]