These programs are in the bin directory in the install directory.
Many of these programs are useful for batch processing scripts.
You can get usage information for most programs in $HFS/bin with
‹program› -h
Or, in some cases,
‹program› -
Subtopics ¶
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Convert between Alembic formats.
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Print information about an Alembic file.
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Print information about an Alembic file.
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Copies channel collection to/from action channel format.
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Copies channel collection file to another format.
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Prints information about a channel collection file.
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Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from audio formats.
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Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from action channel format.
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Copies CHOP data (clip) to/from channel collection format.
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Copies CHOP data (clip) to another format.
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Prints information about a CHOP data (clip) file.
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Parses and displays dialog scripts.
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Convert between Alembic and Houdini geometry.
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Convert between Houdini polygon formats.
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Converts DXF polygons to/from Houdini format.
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Display Geometry Differences.
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Converts EPS files to Houdini polygon format.
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Prints polygon file statistics.
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Converts LightWave files to/from Houdini format.
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Converts .pdb files to/from Houdini format.
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Geometry viewer.
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Converts .ply files to/from Houdini format.
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Makes a ptexture image file from a geometry file.
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Reduces polygons in a file.
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Converts .obj files to/from Houdini format.
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Collapses a directory structure.
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Expands hip files into a directory structure.
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Opens a graphical user interface for viewing and managing licenses and license server options.
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Swiss-army knife of image operation tools.
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Command line utility to work with .hda/.otl files.
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Command line HScript interpreter.
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Houdini communicates through this proxy server to the sesinetd licensing daemon.
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Query or modify the disk texture cache.
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Command line utility for rendering a USD file using Karma or some other Hydra client.
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Crops images based on pixel values.
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Convert images from 10-bit Cineon format to an 8 bit format.
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Converts an image of one type to another type.
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Isolate a region of an image in a new image.
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Removes noise from an image file.
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Display Image Differences.
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Outputs information about an image.
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Generates a lookup table (LUT) from standard channel formats or another LUT.
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Generates a single lookup table (LUT) from from two LUTs.
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Prints information about a lookup table (LUT) file.
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Creates mipmapped .exr or .rat textures from image files.
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Sends an image to an mdisplay window.
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Prints the RGBA values for an image as text.
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Reduces the number of colors in an image.
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Generates an environment/reflection map from six images representing the six sides of a cube, or a cross image.
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Assemble a series of image files with crop windows into a single image.
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Converts Z-depth images to 8-bit grayscale images.
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The Houdini Launcher downloads, installs, upgrades, and uninstall Houdini and its components.
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Converts an Acclaim motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s).
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Converts a BioVision motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s).
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Converts a Motion Analysis TRC motion file to a Houdini script and channel file(s).
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Convert an image sequence to a movie file.
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Prints information about movie files.
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Message Queue Server for PDG/TOPs
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Convert Python 2 expressions in HDAs to Python 2/3.
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Generates a (possibly scaled down) version of a rendered image with render statistics baked in.
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Generates an HTML page containing render statistics from an EXR image.
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Sets Houdini license server options from the command line.
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The Houdini license server. This program runs in the background managing Houdini licenses.
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Prints simulation cache file statistics.
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Display Text Differences.
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Shell utility for navigating the UNIX filesystem.
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Command line utility for viewing and inspecting USD scenes.
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Query or modify the VEX compile cache.
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Execute a cvex shader.