Hou examples

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Write out a node's ascode python to a file

sys_log_generator.dumptext('C:/dump.txt',hou.Node.asCode(hou.node('/obj/k/file1')) )

Setup a mantra IFD node and prepare for scene caching

import hou

#hou.node('/img').createNode('img')



def set_parm( node,parname,value):
  PARM = node.parm(parname)
  PARM.set(value)
  PARM.eval()


nod = hou.node('/out').createNode('ifd')

set_parm(nod,'soho_diskfile','E://output.framenumber')
set_parm(nod,'soho_outputmode','1')