Kym Watts

Hello,

trying to understand how to i can use prim patterns to do deeper searches for collections with out resorting to python.

All of our assets have a collections node pathed at `{assetname}/collections` , all of our assets are component kind.

For example, we have a street light asset, the light globe, is in the collection called lights.


When in a shot context, is there way that i can get all the `%kind:component`, and the `lights` collection that some of the assets may have?


Cheers

Kym

The simplest way is in the hda, in the onCreated.py like you have in your attachments above , is to simply import your script and run the method you want to run, you can pass kwargs to it if its setup to use it.

if you have a custom config folder setup in your `HOUDINI_PATH` you can setup an onCreated event for the node via:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/locations.html#startup [www.sidefx.com]

the example for : scripts/{category}/ nodename_eventtype.py

so if its a lop node called myNode, the path would be : scripts/lop/myNode_onCreated.py

however you cant have both, either the hda level or the having it in your `HOUDINI_PATH`, if you set it up as a script in the `HOUDINI_PATH` it will ignore the onCreated.py in the hda. I found that out recently

hope this helps.
kym

Heel,

Im not sure what the word is or functionality that best describes this, but over the years of watching presentations, it looks like some companies have added the shot or scene name into the nodegraph in the same way the context words like when in a Solaris node graph, or say running a houdini indie version. what are the words to describe these overlays and are there configurable settings to change them?



Is there a python way to edit these?

Cheers
kym