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How to launch & control houdini programmably Feb. 24, 2026, 1:46 p.m.

You can try to do it with python commands using Hython.

Google Houdini hython inline, and the AI should give you some examples using a script.py or a full command.

Custom data from sops Feb. 21, 2026, 12:15 p.m.

Attached scene show how you can get the namespace into Solaris from SOPs.

In short you need to toggle a button on the node that creates the attribute.

Attribute Create = Encode Invalid Attribute Names
Attribute Wrangle = Standard Variable Names Only

Not long ago I noticed the toggles for the first time, after using Houdini for 11 years.

Hair groom flips while scaling down with HairProcedural Feb. 21, 2026, 11:56 a.m.

Probably best to export everything so it matches the scale(Maya scale) in Solaris before it's imported from SOPs. Scaling in Solaris just increases the possibility for errors to happen allover the place.