The ability to do this is a bit scattered and incomplete from what I gathered.
Python
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/Geometry.html [www.sidefx.com]
Has a few methods
- intrinsicNames() returns global or detail intrinsics only.
- intrinsicReadOnly() and intrinsicSize() are undocumented and seem to only work with detail intrinsics.
- intrinsicValueDict() has all possible intrinsics, plus values of existing intrinsics, but without any information on the data, like Python can provide for normal point attributes, for example.
ginfo
In Shell, with the path set to the Houdini executables folder, ($HFS/bin), the command "ginfo -I" will return all possible intrinsics, detail and primitive. But once again no data type information.
VEX
string datts[] = detailintrinsic(0, "globaltokens") ; string patts[] = primintrinsic(0, "primitivetokens") ; printf("%s", datts) ; printf("%s", patts) ;
Will print a similar list to
ginfo -Iand intrinsicValueDict()'s "globaltokens" and "primitivetokens". But yet again no data type info, no writability info, or existing info.So, bit frustrated with my attempts so far and would appreciate to know extra methods I may be missing.
Thanks.