Houdini Plugins

Overview

This is a place to put all of the Houdini plugins, scripts, etc… That I work on, so they don't get lost, and in the off chance they prove useful, others can find them.

Config

###Node Color Palette###

Place this file in your $HOME/houdiniXX.YY/config directory, to get a custom palette.

The included example looks like this:

Panels

###Snippets Panel###

Provides artists with a simple snippets manager, to save/use VEX and Python code. Pretty basic for now...

Plugins

Consider these obsolete, but were good learning exercises at the time.

POPs

• ~~Repulse POP - Creates a small field that helps to keep particles separated, based on their radius.~~
• Bullet POP - Uses the Bullet library to allow for RBD collisions. Only supports spheres right now, and is missing robust rotation support.

SOPs

• Pack SOP - Uses the Bullet Library to pack a series of objects together.

Pipeline

• floo - A semi-hacky way to manage jobs on a few computers.
• mkmov - Simple Python script for converting images to mp4 using ffmpeg.

Scripts

• mkmov - Simple ffmpeg wrapper to bake movies, since ffmpeg is pretty old (or secretly avconv) on Debian.
• htool.py - Utility for setting Houdini versions in a given shell; called by bash function.