Hey guys,

Back in the days houdini used to store icons in $HFS/mozilla/documents/icons/large, which seems to be no longer the case. It seems that now icons are stored either in `SVGIcons.cache` or in `SVGIcons.index`. Is there a way to extract those into a set of svg files somehow?


Thanks,
Vlad

It is under houdini/help/icons.zip

Thanks!

If you're using the icons for your own tools, you can actually use the File browser to get them directly without needing to extract the .zip file. There is an option right under Home Directory in the File browser, to browse the icon cache!

How do you replace icons in the SVGIcons.index?

Is that something that's automatically regenerated from icons.zip,
if the index and cache files are deleted?

Or is there a mechanism in place to override global icon set with the custom one if placed in the user or site pref folder?

i would be also keen to know how to replace those icons with some custom ones

@martinkindl83
I also was goofing around with that, but gave up.
I got this answer from SideFX. Maybe you can figure it out.
Let me know if you get how to do it:

From our developer:

Add icons under $HOUDINI_PATH/config/Icons
Under the Houdini installation, find houdini/config/IconMapping
Edit the file such that icon names are redirected to your new icon files
Alternatively, you can:

Delete SVGIcons.cache files in both Houdini installation and user folder, e.g., Documents\houdini21.0\config\Icons
Run hidx -x here $HH/Icons/SVGIcons.index to extract files into here
Replace icons
Run hdx -c here $HH/Icons/SVGIcons.index to pack files into index

You will need to run the command on the hcmd.exe, under the bin folder of Houdini's installation folder.

icons.zip file is only used for help cards

Cheers
CYTE