Brian Walters

Brian Walters

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Recent Forum Posts

Create a hou.Tool in a HDADefinition via HOM Oct. 22, 2020, 2:58 p.m.

Is there a way to create a new hou.Tool that is embedded in a digital asset via HOM? You can obviously add your own in the Type Properties dialog - and I suppose you could hack the xml in HDADefinition.sections() - but that's… hacky.

Are there some methods I'm missing for creating and/or fetching tools that live in an HDA?

Thanks!

queryWorldPositionAndNormal Aug. 18, 2020, 9:19 p.m.

Pinging this again. I'm curious, too.

hou.Node.outputNode April 28, 2020, 6:22 p.m.

Is there a method that gets the “output” node for a given dive-able node with sop children? One that would return any “output” nodes inside, or else the render flag?

e.g.:

n = hou.node("/obj/geo1/subnet1")
n.displayNode()  # Node with display flag
n.renderNode()   # Node with render flag
n.outputNode()   # Doesn't exist. I want the same logic as what's output from an HDA.