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Houdini Development Toolkit - Version 6.5

Side Effects Software Inc. 2004

General Operators

Making an Icon

One last thing that needs to be done for custom operators is to make an icon for the graphical user interface. The UI library which we use can read any .pic file as an icon, but for operators, it is better to use a .icon file. The reason for this is that the icon must be re-sized so for resolution independent images, .icon files are best.

The name of the icon should be obvious the first time you run Houdini since there should be an error message printed out to the textport.

To make a .icon file, you can use the SGI program iconsmith which should be found in /usr/sbin. The easiest way to make an icon is to start with an existing icon and modify it. When the icon is complete (to your satisfaction), it should be installed somewhere in the Houdini search path. Usually in /usr/local/houdini/config/Icons or $HOME/houdini/config/Icons.


Table of Contents
Operators | Surface Operations | Particle Operations | Composite Operators | Channel Operators
Material & Texture | Objects | Command and Expression | Render Output |
Mantra Shaders | Utility Classes | Geometry Library | Image Library | Clip Library
Customizing UI | Questions & Answers

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