Hi guys,

this is my first post here!
As a technical artist I want to use Houdini to automate certain tasks, which requires me to roundtrip data between Houdini and other applications. I'm curently trying to understand my options of controlling Houdini “from the outside”, i.e. getting a running instance of the application and dispatching Python script commands.
In Maya, XSI and 3dsmax this is possible via the COM interface (which python could make use of via the win32 extension module).
Is there a comparable or similar functionality in/for Houdini?

Thanks for your help,

Stefan

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/commandline [www.sidefx.com]
so regular command line and also check out hython.


HTH

arctor
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/commandline [www.sidefx.com]
so regular command line and also check out hython.

HTH

… and in particular for remote control of Houdini session:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/rpc [www.sidefx.com]

Thank you guys, that is exactly what I was looking for!

Stefan