¶Houdini

¶Running Shift in Houdini

Shift provides a hshift utility script to properly bind the Shift UI to Houdini. In order to run and open Shift in Houdini, execute the following code block inside the Houdini Python Script Editor:

try:
    import shift
except:
    import sys
    sys.path.append("<path_to_the_shift_installation_folder>")
    sys.path.append("<path_to_the_shift_installation_folder>/shift/thirdparty/python/Lib/site-packages")

from shift.tools import hshift
hshift.show()

¶Python Interpreter Setup

In Shift it is possible to launch the execution of a workflow via an application's Python interpreter with the WorkflowProcess node. To achieve this for Houdini, set the path to its Python interpreter the following environment variable:

SHIFT_PROCESS_HOUDINI : path to Houdini's Python interpreter (hython)

¶Catalogs

Shift provides some catalogs with operators specific to work within Houdini. Most of these nodes are found in the CreativeSoftware catalog.