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Select a node by name |
In the network editor, choose Edit ▸ Quick Navigate to Node, or press ⇧ Shift + /. A quick find window will pop up near the mouse pointer.
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Open the find dialog |
In the network editor, choose Edit ▸ Find or press ⌃ Ctrl + F or /.
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Move through results |
Once there are search results in the table at bottom of the find dialog, you can use the Next and Previous buttons to select each node in the results. If the find dialog is closed, you can still move through the search results using:
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Add search criteria |
In the find dialog, click
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Add filter and choose the 
delete button to the right of a row to remove it.Filters ¶
Tip
Click All to require nodes to match all of the filters. Click Any to show nodes that match any of the filters.
Name
Finds nodes by name.
For example, you can set up a “Name matches pattern left_*” filter.
Evaluated Parameter
Finds nodes by the evaluated value of a parameter on the node.
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You can look up parameters by their internal name (for example,
scale) or their human readable label (for example,Uniform Scale). You can use a pattern to match the parameter (for example,scale*). -
You can choose to find parameters where the value is equal to, greater than, less than, etc. a certain value.
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You can find string parameter values using a value pattern.
For example, you can set up a “Parameter tx >= 0” filter.
Note that if you want to find certain text in an expression (rather than the evaluated value), you should use the Raw Parameter filter instead.
Raw Parameter
This is similar to Evaluated Parameter, but it matches nodes by the unevaluated, textual value of a parameter on the node. This lets you search the text of expressions, for example, rather than the number the expression evaluates to.
For example, you can set up a “Raw Parameter tx contains $F” filter.
Wrangle Snippets
Finds Wrangle nodes by searching the contents of the VEX snippets. This filter matches snippets containing the given text (you cannot use wildcards in the search text).
(This is a convenience equivalent to adding a Node type filter for nodes whose names end in wrangle, plus a Parameter filter for parameters named snippet containing the search text.)
For example, you can set up a “Wrangle VEX contains @N +” filter.
Parameter State
Finds nodes that have parameters in a certain state.
For example, you can set up a “Parameter State has an expression” or “Parameter State off default” filter.
State
Finds nodes that are in a certain state, such as has/doesn’t have various flags, or errors/warnings/messages, or a comment. You can also find locked or unlocked asset nodes by searching for has/doesn’t have “asset lock”. You can find nodes with animation or animated expressions by searching for “time dependence”.
For example, you can set up a “State has Bypass flag” filter.
Type
Finds nodes of a certain type.
For example, you can set up a “Type is not Sop *wrangle” filter.
Tag
Finds nodes that are tagged with a given keyword. This works similarly to searching by name, except each tag is checked separately.
Currently, only APEX nodes have tags (operator nodes do not).
Search syntax ¶
You can also use special search syntax in the search field at the top of the dialog. These let you type equivalents of the various search criteria
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Bare words are name substring searches. For example
foomatches any name containing foo.Technically we're just taking the input, putting it inside asterisks, and putting that into the Houdini pattern matching function, so you can use Houdini’s pattern matching syntax here.
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Use plus and minus to match flags and states. For example, all nodes with the template flag on and no warnings or errors:
+template -warning -error. Flags/states accept prefixes, e.g.:+ti -warn.States you can search for include all the flag names, as well as
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Raw parameter search:
tx=$F ty=2 tz=sin. The operator~=uses Houdini pattern matching, for examplefile~=$F.If you want to search for a value with spaces, enclose the value in quotes. For example,
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Evaluated parameter search:
ty:0 tx:>5 tz:<=0. The operator~=uses Houdini pattern matching, for examplefile:~=*foo* -
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Prefix a search by node type with an apostrophe:
'objmerge.