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What @mdkaisaid!That would help a lot.

A tutorial on writing your own nodes would be useful. I know that python nodes are kind of limited at the moment (with no real outputs?)

But it would still be a useful tutorial I think.

I use python just enough to hack scripts that will automate our workflow and minimise repetitive tasks.
The part I struggle with is the interface scripting. I cant find enough examples of other peoples interface scripts to "hack" from.

Right now I need to find a way for the user to pick a context and then feed that back into the script..just as an example but please tell me if you know how.

Video tutorials.

Dougike, you can do this to pick a context:

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my_context = ix.api.IOHelpers.pick_context(ix.application, "Pick your context")

Cheers
Sylvain

thank you Sylvain. works! And now I know about IOHelpers

Ah yes, this is really needed, I am struggling to gather information on python manipulation in Clarisse, it's frustrating to get started in Clarisse... Both video and (better) written tutorials are needed. Here is the subjects I would recommend:

- Scripting environment in Clarisse (run commands, watch the log, etc)
- Basic object manipulation (build python selection, get and set attributes, run loops, get node type, etc)
- GUI scripting (not in QT)
- python case studies

+++ python sdk documentation is really hard to start guys, take a look at the houdini documantation please
thanks!

Hello,

Did you guys ever manage to write some tutorials for Python in Clarisse? I have some ideas if you haven't:

A complete list of Clarisse specific basic commands, along with examples of how they can be used.
Basic Attribute querying and setting, commands and tricks.
Browser/Explorer traversal, searching, and renaming or re-organization.
User Interface building.
Setting constraints, creating groups, managing groups.
Adding to or changing shading layers.

I could go on and on...

You can take a look at the way The Foundry have written their Python documentation for Katana, but honestly, I find their guides to be a bit too ambiguous at times, and they don't include enough examples that you can copy and paste into your script editor to test.

Thanks!
Steve.

Unfortunately not. We're focusing on other higher priority things...

Thanks for your feedback.