Default Preferences
- Disable Nodes Shapes
- Use Simple Node Shapes
- Disable Auto Move Nodes
- Disable Nodes Animations
- Set Low Size to Show Ring
- Show Displayed Node instead of Selected Node
- Create Tools In Context
- Set UI to Compact Mode
- Startup with a specific Desktop
On Scene Open
- Apply the default Desktop
- Set Cooking mode to Manual
Set view to “Show Display Operator”Not possible yetSet view to “Hide other objects”Not possible yet
For making the loading of scenes faster and more stable
Network View Improvements
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Drag and drop files from explorer (abc/usd/usd/usd/obj/fbx/txt/mdd/ass/rs/images):
-
Propagate display flag to children:
- Create object merge from clipboard (Ctrl+C Alt+V):
- Alt+click to create Nulls:
- Connect nodes by height position (Shift+Y):
- Create Node Previews (experimental):
- Improved Cycle display flag (R):
Shortcuts
- Paste parameters (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V)
- Change particle types of display (Shift+D)
- Show dependency links (Ctrl+D)
- Toggle cooking mode (F10)
- Changing viewport background color (Shift+B):
Scrub Timeline (K) (Video)
Network Clipboard - Send selected nodes to another user on the same network
How to install
Paste this script to Houdini > Window > Python Source Editor > Accept
Here is what the script does:
- Download the latest release
- Extract its content to the Houdini prefs folder
- Modify the file
Houdini-tools/REGNAREB.json
, replace$REGNAREB
with the path to the folder of the folderHoudini-tools
- Move the
REGNAREB.json
file in apackages
folder of your Houdini preferences folder
If everything is working fine, it should show that window on the next start of Houdini:
For more tool preferences, activate the Regnareb shelf and press the Preferences button.
You can also auto-update the tools by clicking the Update button.
For Developers
You can download the code by doing
git clone --recurse-submodules -c core.symlinks=true --remote-submodules https://github.com/Regnareb/Houdini.git
How to uninstall
If you want to uninstall the tools, just delete the file packages/regnareb.json
in your Houdini preferences