Houdini Node Network & Snippet Library: Efficient Preset Management

Streamline Your Houdini Workflow with this Efficient Preset Manager!

Are you tired of constantly re-creating setups in Houdini? Frustrated with managing presets, dragging nodes to your shelf, and saving VOPs to random galleries? This tool offers a clean, efficient way to manage presets, providing quick access to your nodes and snippets through an intuitive interface. Focus on your artistry, not on preset management!

This powerful library tool allows you to store and paste node networks and snippets into wrangles, all in a central database. Say goodbye to saving node networks to your shelf or tool palette. Save your presets, node networks, and favorite code effortlessly and indefinitely. Enhance your workflow and stop re-creating the same setups over and over again.

Features:

1. Fast and easy category configuration for creating your database/library exactly how you want it.
2. Have infinite categories to organize how you wish - easily to manipulate after creation.
3. Node network that you create will work with any type - sop, dop, top, etc. and snippets will work with any wrangle and VEXpression to and from is also included!
4. Pasting is not context dependent - freeing you up to not be constrained by context
5. Can easily replace node networks and snippets
6. User based and department based versions - designed with both studios and independent users in mind.
7. New feature as of 1.8.24 - quick search tool has been added to accelerate pasting nodes and snippets by triple amount. Accelerate your workflow even more.
8. New feature as of 1.31.24 - Ability to import other libraries into your library. And other features are included.
9. New feature as of 5.20.24 - now has quick search history, disabled by default

Limitations:

1. Tested in Houdini 18.5, 19.5, and 20
2. Tested on Windows and Linux only so far
3. Mainly built for default 1080p monitors, if this limitation is pertaining to you please just message me and I will fix.
4. Currently, for node networks, when you paste it will only paste for the license you copied from - since it is binary file contents being saved. If node network was copied from apprentice license Houdini it will paste as apprentice in hip file so be mindful. I plan to look into in future to avoid this problem.

Usage:
Created and tested in Houdini 18.5, 19.5 - Python 2, 3.9

Added bonus tool + object merge tool for creating object merges for selected nodes on the fly.

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Contact:

For any questions, tool suggestions, feedback, or issues, please email: strasser274@gmail.com