jsoles

Thanks for all of your replies. If the file requestor isn't interruptable, then I guess there isn't a way in which to add an unzipping hook.

I don't know if houdini has this particular ability, but is there a way to add a button to any of the menu's, and define the behaivour there?
Jordan

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately that particular solution doesn't handle the case when you open hip files ‘after’ a houdini session has been invoked. Are you aware of any clever hooks into that behaivour?

Since hip files compress really well, I've been trying to come up with a hook that would allow you to open a zipped hip file, and have it automatically unzip it.

At first I thought the 123 or 456 scripts were the way to go, but being a total newbie, I was completely wrong about when they are invoked in the overall lifecycle.

So I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

I'm using houdini 8 on a redhat 4 system.
Thanks,
Jordan