Check to see what file path hapi.extractImageToFile would have saved to given the same parms. Perhaps you might wish to see if it already exists before extracting.
Usage ¶
getImageFilePath(session: hapi.Session, material_node_id: int, image_file_format_name: str, image_planes: str, destination_folder_path: str, destination_file_name: str, texture_parm_id: int) → int
Get the file name that this image would be saved to
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.
material_node_id
The material node id.
image_file_format_name
The image file format name you wish the image to be extracted as. See hapi.extractImageToFile for more information.
image_planes
The image planes you wish to extract into the file. Multiple image planes should be separated by spaces.
destination_folder_path
The folder where the image file sould be created.
destination_file_name
Optional parameter to overwrite the name of the extracted texture file. See hapi.extractImageToFile for more information.
texture_parm_id
The index in the parameter list of the material node. of the parameter containing the texture map file path
Returns destination_file_path as a int.