Advanced Setups 02 - Installing 3rd Party Libraries For Houdini's Python
Added 2021-06-10 06:57:40 +0000 UTCFOREWORD: We think this should be common knowledge, so we decided to make this part of the premium course publicly available.
Itβs finally come so far β weβre accepting that we canβt (or rather donβt want to) write every complex algorithm out there ourselves in VEX. Enter Python. Not necessarily because Mo loves Python so much, but because there is a wealth of highly interesting libraries out there which enable us to do elaborate Geometry processing easier than purely relying on VEX.
However in order to use these libraries, weβll have to get them installed first. Which is mostly straightforward. Mostlyβ¦
https://www.python.org/downloads/
https://www.scipy.org/install.html
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I'm on a Mac and had trouble installing Python 3.7 with pyenv (allows you to switch between different versions) but you can use the version of Python that comes with Houdini and install packages into that. This page walks you through the process http://wordpress.discretization.de/houdini/home/advanced-2/installing-and-using-scipy-in-houdini/
Mark Horgan
2022-07-31 09:36:15 +0000 UTC
