Note that when saving the Houdini scene using hapi.saveHIPFile the nodes created with this method will be green and will start with the name “input”.
Usage ¶
createInputNode(session: hapi.Session, parent_node_id: int, name: str) → int
Creates a simple geometry SOP node that can accept geometry input. Inside the specified parent node, this will create a Null SOP you can set the geometry of using the geometry SET APIs. You can then connect this node to any other node as a geometry input.
session
The session of Houdini you are interacting with. See hapi.Session for more on sessions. Pass None to just use the default in-process session.
parent_node_id
The node id of the parent OBJ node or SOP subnetwork node in which the input node should be created, or -1 to create a new dummy parent OBJ node for this input node.
name
Give this input node a name for easy debugging. The node’s parent OBJ node and the Null SOP node will both get this given name with “input_” prepended. You can also pass None in which case the name will be “input#” where # is some number.
Returns node_id as a int.