Pyblish integration for SideFx Houdini 8-18.5.

What is included?

A set of common plug-ins and functions shared across other integrations - such as getting the current working file. It also visually integrates Pyblish into the File-menu for easy access.

• Common plug-ins
• Common functionality
• File-menu shortcut

Installation

pyblish-houdini depends on pyblish-base and is available via PyPI.

$ pip install pyblish-houdini

You may also want to consider a graphical user interface, such as pyblish-qml or pyblish-lite.

Usage

To get started using pyblish-houdini, run setup() at startup of your application.

# 1. Register your favourite GUI
import pyblish.api
pyblish.api.register_gui("pyblish_lite")

# 2. Set-up Pyblish for Houdini
import pyblish_houdini
pyblish_houdini.setup()

Persistence

In order to have Pyblish become a permanent member of each Houdini session, you can add the supplied houdini_path/ folder to your HOUDINI_PATH environment variable.

Take care however, for this variable has an unexpected quirk on Windows platforms.

$ set "HOUDINI_PATH=C:\pythonpath\pyblish_houdini\houdini_path;&"

Note the & sign, and the fact that the entire expression is wrapped in quotation marks.

If you use batch script files on Windows to launch Houdini, you'll need to escape the "&" character with "^&".

With this variable set, you should find a new File-menu item.

NOTE: If you use "HOUDINI_PATH" in houdini.env, make sure you setup the path here instead or inherit the environment with "$HOUDINI_PATH"

Documentation

• Under the hood
• Manually show GUI
• Teardown pyblish-houdini
• No GUI

Under the hood

The setup() command will:

1. Register Houdini related "hosts", allowing plug-ins to be filtered accordingly.
2. Register a minimal set of plug-ins that are common across all integrations.

Manually show GUI

The menu-button is set to run show(), which you may also manually call yourself, such as from a shelf-button.

import pyblish_houdini
pyblish_houdini.show()

Teardown pyblish-houdini

To get rid of the menu, and completely remove any trace of pyblish-houdini from your Houdini session, run teardown().

import pyblish_houdini
pyblish_houdini.teardown()

This will do the opposite of setup() and clean things up for you.

No GUI

In the event that no GUI is registered upon running setup(), the button will provide the user with this information on how they can get up and running on their own.