shoheiokazaki / nagamochi

Houdini Tools

Nagamochi

Nagamochi is a library of Digital Assets, Presets, Shelves, and Scripts for SideFX Houdini.

Features

• otls
• Shelf
• Right-click on parm menu
• Presets

Requirement

Houdini 18.5 or Higher

Installation

1. Save this repository wherever you want.
2. Copy the Nagamochi.json file from the location you used in step 1 to $HOME/Houdini19.5/packages and change the contained paths to match the location you chose in step 1.

{
    "env" : 
    [
        {   "NAGAMOCHI" : "PLACE_TO_INSTALL"  },

        {   "HOUDINI_PATH" :
        	{
        		"value":
        			[        				
                        "$NAGAMOCHI/common",
        				"$NAGAMOCHI/houdini$HOUDINI_MAJOR_RELEASE.$HOUDINI_MINOR_RELEASE",                       
        			],
        	}
        },
        
        {   "NM_CACHE_HOU" : "HIP_VAR/../caches"  },

        {   "NM_RV_PATH" : "C:/Program Files/ShotGrid/RV-2023.0.0/bin/rv.exe"  },
    ]
}

Tutorials

https://vimeo.com/shohey [OTL]

• SOP
  • nmCameraClipPoints https://vimeo.com/388993350
• DOP
  • nmGasAge https://vimeo.com/386939150

Future Work

• Create a video about how to use tools
• Clean up some scripts

Author

• Shohei Okazaki

Note

Nagamochi has two meanings, 「長持」 and 「長持ち」. 長持 is the toolbox of old Japanese folklore. And 長持ち means 'long-lasting'.

Nagamochi aims to be the toolbox separate from the Houdini version.

I'm making it under Windows 10 and Mint 21.