Default Preferences

• Disable Nodes Shapes
• Use Simple Node Shapes
• Disable Auto Move Nodes
• Disable Nodes Animations
• Set Low Size to Show Ring
• Show Displayed Node instead of Selected Node
• Create Tools In Context
• Set UI to Compact Mode
• Startup with a specific Desktop

On Scene Open

• Apply the default Desktop
• Set Cooking mode to Manual
• Set view to “Show Display Operator”
• Set view to “Hide other objects”

For making the loading of scenes faster and more stable

Network View Improvements

• Drag and drop files from explorer (abc/usd/usd/usd/obj/fbx/txt/mdd/ass/rs/images):

• Propagate display flag to children:

• Create object merge from clipboard (Ctrl+C Alt+V):

• Alt+click to create Nulls:

• Connect nodes by height position (Shift+Y):

• Create Node Previews (experimental):

• Improved Cycle display flag (R):

Shortcuts

• Paste parameters (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V)
• Change particle types of display (Shift+D)
• Show dependency links (Ctrl+D)
• Toggle cooking mode (F10)
• Changing viewport background color (Shift+B):

Scrub Timeline (K) (Video)

Network Clipboard - Send selected nodes to another user on the same network

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How to install

Download the latest release and extract its content. Modify the file Houdini-tools/REGNAREB.json, replace path/to/this/folder with the path to the folder of Houdini-tools
Then copy this .json file in your Houdini preference folder, in a packages folder
If everything is working fine, it should show that window on the next start of Houdini:

For more tool preferences, activate the Regnareb shelf and press the Preferences button:

For Developers

You can download the code by doing

git clone --recurse-submodules -c core.symlinks=true --remote-submodules https://github.com/Regnareb/Houdini.git

How to uninstall

If you want to uninstall the tools, just delete the file packages/regnareb.json in your Houdini preferences