Tips and Tricks

Force viewport textures to reload

Type this command into an hscript textport (you can raise a new hscript textport window using the shortcut Alt+Shift+T).

glcache -c

Make Houdini crash

Type this command into an hscript textport and Houdini will crash.

coredump -f

Remap $HIP path

Type this command into an hscript textport to remap where $HIP paths to. This can be useful if you've moved the Houdini scene file but not everything else it was linking to.

setenv HIP = /Users/john_kunz/Downloads/

Hide nodes in the network editor

Type this command into an hscript textport to hide nodes in the network editor.

opset -e off /obj/geo1

See who created a node

Type this command into an hscript textport to reveal who created a node. Figure out who to complain to.

opstat /obj/geo1

See what version of Houdini the scene was saved with

This internal variable can be used to figure out what version of Houdini the scene was created in.

echo $_HIP_SAVEVERSION

Export node information to a text file

Type this command into an hscript textport to dump node information as a plain text document. Useful if you're passing along geometry caches to another artist so they can be aware of existing groups and attributes.

opinfo /obj/grid1/subdivide1 > $HOME/Downloads/info.txt

Merge nodes from other scenes into your file

Type this command into an hscript textport.

mread -m /obj/geo1/* $HOME/Downloads/example.hip

Unhide legacy and utility operators

Type this command into an hscript textport.

opunhide Sop tetrahedralize::2.0

Save and version up your scene

Type this command into an hscript textport.

mwrite -i $HIPFILE

Save the output data of an operator to a file

Type this command into an hscript textport.

opsave -f 1 240 -i 1 /obj/geo1/sweep1 $HOME/Downloads/sweep_$F4.obj