HoudiniDevelopmentKit

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Contents 1 The Houdini Development Kit (HDK) 2 What can I write with the HDK? 3 HDK Resources 4 General Development

[edit] The Houdini Development Kit (HDK)

The HDK is now freely distributed with HoudiniApprentice. The HDK is a C++ toolkit for developing plugins for Houdini and Mantra.

This is right place to post community documentation on the HDK.

[edit] What can I write with the HDK?

The HDK allows you to:

• create new nodes of all types: SOPs, COPs, Objects, CHOPs, ROPs, DOPs and POPs
• create new HScript commands and expressions.
• extend the VEX function set.
• draw into the viewport (look for GR_RenderHook) by intecepting the geometry on the way to the viewport.
• write MantraProcedurals.
• extend the supported FileFormats.
• access a large and extremely useful library of utility classes that are traditionally not available in other API's.

[edit] HDK Resources

• HDKFrequentlyAskedQuestions : Our FAQ for the HDK including installation and setup information
• HDKDoxygenPages : doxygen documentation of the HDK
• HDKCodeExamples: learn by example!
• HDKNotebook : some notes on the HDK - please feel free to add info here.
• Discuss and search at odforce HDK Forum too.
• OdForce also has a SourceForgeProject set up for HDK enthusiasts to download code and share their projects.
• Opensource library for reading Houdini geometry files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/houdinigpdlibra/

[edit] General Development

• Optimization, Threading & GPGPU : Article on various performance-enhancing development methods.