houdiniPythonSnippets

//Split alembic to multiple groups when primitive groups is set to 'name using transform node full path'

selNode = hou.selectedNodes()[0]
selNode.setPosition([0,0])
if len(hou.selectedNodes()) == 0:
    hou.ui.displayMessage("Make your selection first", title = "Error")
else:
    listGroups = selNode.geometry().primGroups()
    groupsNum = len(listGroups)
    hou.clearAllSelected()
 
    for prim in listGroups:
        createDel = selNode.createOutputNode("blast", "OBJ_"+prim.name())
        createDel.parm("group").set(prim.name())
        createDel.parm("negate").set(1)
        createDel.parm("removegrp").set(1)
        createDel.setSelected(True, clear_all_selected = False)
    
selNode.setPosition([(groupsNum),0])
hou.ui.displayMessage("Created " + str(groupsNum) +" objects")

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//Create a material node for all selected nodes

import hou
nodes = hou.selectedNodes()
for node in nodes:
    newMat = node.createOutputNode("material");

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