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Quickly add Hip Paths and Rop nodes to Houdini Render Manager Tool
🕑 Added 2025-01-19 03:14:57 +0000 UTCI made an easy way to add rop nodes right from houdini to Houdini Render Manager for you. Its a Python Panel in the Houdini which allows you to add it easy. No need to copy the hip path or rop path manually! But still need to open houdini to do this, just when you finish your work dont forget to add it just in case and thats it!
IMPORTANT!
To make it work run exe of the Houdini Render Manager Tool it least once to let it create a json file in that folder, and then choose in the Python Panel described below.
Installation to install (also in screenshots):
Place the HoudiniRenderManager.pypanel file to the houdini path "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\houdini20.5\python_panels" if the "python_panels" not created, create it manually.
Go to Houdini, click Plus small icon right to the any panel you have, and choose Misc/Python Panel
Then click on the right bottom part Gear icon/Edit Interface
Go to Toolbar Menu, find HoudiniRenderManager and drag it to right side or click arrow in the middle
Do the same in Pane Tab Menu and you can close this window
Now you can find the panel in the if you click Plus small icon right to the any panel you have, and choose New Pane Tab Type/HoudiniRenderManager
Done!
How it works:
1. Add you JSON file "Houdini_data" which is located in the folder where you unpacked exe of the tool (if its not exist, you need to run exe of the actual Houdini Render Manager Tool first, to let it create a json file in that folder)
2. Then select you nodes one or multiple, click Add Selected Rop Nodes
3. See its added to the table below, keep in mind its just a preview, all changes you can do in HRM Tool
4. There are two checkbox, first "Row Enabled to Render" is enabling or disabling the whole row to render when its adding to the tool, second "Place on top" adding the row at the top, by default its adding to the bottom.
Dont want to make it too complex and selecting or removing rows or change the texts. So made it as a preview in Houdini panel. But anyway if you have any bugs or requests i would love to hear!
Comments
Konstantin Kovalenko
Thanx for testing it! I didn’t test it with RS, only with Karma, and just cache nodes, will test it later and see how it goes and fix whatever I get.
Daniel Meszaros
Ok, once I excluded it from all scanning, it worked alright! but the render manager doesn't quite work for me, it seems to not like Redshift "skipping unrecognized parameter" for everything RS related
Daniel Meszaros
nothing really, it went straight to the error mesage. but I'll troubleshoot later and see what might cause it, n report back
Konstantin Kovalenko
Hm interesting, is there any info in log file? Or specific errors in cmd that opened on background?
Daniel Meszaros
also antivirus software immediately flags it as a threat, though easy to get around but just letting you know
Daniel Meszaros
hey! I'm running into issues with the very first step. when trying to click the render manager.exe file. "Windows cannot access the specified device or file." no appropriate permissions to access it, even running it as administrator
