Installation

Requirements

This package requires general Python package dependencies, as well as custom Houdini packages. Please ensure they are appropriately installed prior to launching Houdini.

PyPi packages (detailed in requirements.txt)

• python-singleton

• tabulate

Custom Tools

• you-can-call-me-houdini

Source

In order to install this tool you’ll first need to get a copy of the files from Github. You can either clone the repository or download and extract an official release.

Adding to Houdini

houdini-recent-files-menu supports being loaded into Houdini in multiple ways:

• Houdini Packages

• Rez packages

• Standard path based setup

Houdini Package

This tool comes with a houdini_recent_files_menu.json file which can be used to tell Houdini how to load the package. Add the containing directory to $HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR or one of the other methods defined here

Rez Package

This package supports Rez packaging via a package.py file in the root directory.

Path Based Setup

In order to manually setup the tooling you’ll need to do the following:

• Add the src/houdini path to $HOUDINI_PATH

• Add the src/python path to $PYTHONPATH