Probably a stupid question but…

How do I save out an asset in the OTL format?
When I right click and save something as a Digital Asset it saves as a .hdalc
I'm using Houdini Indie 14.

Many thanks

in 14 hda is the new default extension that replaces otl

otl = Operator Type Library
hda = Houdini Digital Asset…

as of 14 the convention is just hda…

so in your case you are saving the correct type (plus the ‘lc’ for limited commercial)

HTH

Now that I see these laid out, I think a better mixture between the two would have been:

HOL = Houdini Operator Library, or even
HAL = Houdini Asset Library

since these assets are always digital, or have you ever seen an analog asset in your file system? ;-)

Have fun,
Andy

Ah, makes more sense now.

Turns out I can just replace the suffix and type .otl and it works as expected.

Thanks

Are otls that are created in H14, not backwards compatible with older versions of Houdini??!

you could try just renaming the asset:

myAsset.hda > myAsset.otl

and see, I think it will work

arctor
you could try just renaming the asset:

myAsset.hda > myAsset.otl

and see, I think it will work

Yes, this actually does work. I tried directly saving it as a .otl directly from H14, and it was not importable into H13.

Saving a digital asset from H14 as a .hda, then renaming it in a file browser to a .otl does seem to work when I import it into H13.

Can't say I quite agree with the way they changed things here…

I did my tests with 14.0.201.13
Has anyone else tried importing otls from H14 into H13 or lower?

As a freelancer that has a suite of tools I bring from studio to studio, this makes building tools in H14 kind of useless, because not all studios use the latest version of Houdini (ie: some still use H13)