Houdini Snippet Vol.11 – Selection to Shelf Tool
Create a shelf tool – you can just drop a bunch of nodes to a shelf and voila… so the houdini docs. In some cases it works in some it doesn’t. I tried a small script. Python Code (Prototype):
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def create_shelf_tool_from_selection(): try: ## Get specific ns_Tools shelf ## allShelves = hou.shelves.shelfSets()["shelf_set_1"] ## in my case this is located in set_1 shelf_set1 = list(allShelves.shelves()) ns_tool_shelf = None for shelf_item in shelf_set1: if shelf_item.name() == "ns_tools": ## my custom shelf named ns_Tools ## ns_tool_shelf = shelf_item ## Get all selected nodes and create the python descriptions/code ## sel = hou.selectedNodes() if sel: parent = sel[0].parent() parentObj = hou.node(parent.path()) ## Workaround with subnets to get the hole hierarchy ## subNet = parentObj.collapseIntoSubnet(sel, subnet_name="tmp") pyString = subNet.asCode(recurse=True, save_spare_parms=True) pyString += ''' ## Extract the selected subnetwork ## sel = hou.selectedNodes() sel[0].extractAndDelete()''' subNet.extractAndDelete() ## Create and handle new shelf tool ## tool_set = [] current_tool_set = ns_tool_shelf.tools() for i in current_tool_set: tool_set.append(i) ## Tool name input window ## toolName = hou.ui.readInput("Enter a tool name:")[1] entry_folder = hou.hscriptExpression("$HSITE") pathShelfFile = (entry_folder + os.sep + "toolbar" + os.sep + "ns_Tools.shelf").replace("\\", "/") tool_set.append(hou.shelves.newTool(file_path=pathShelfFile, name=(toolName.replace(" ", "_")).lower(), label=toolName, script=pyString, language=hou.scriptLanguage.Python, icon="hicon:/SVGIcons.index?IM_NewViewport.svg")) ns_tool_shelf.setTools(tool_set) else: hou.ui.displayMessage("Select some Node(s)!") except Exception as e: hou.ui.displayMessage("Ooops, something went wrong.") print(e) |
