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houdini-camera-light

Authoring skill — create and edit cameras and lights, frame the Scene Viewer, and report active camera/view state through typed tools. Pair with houdini-render for viewport capture and ROP render execution.

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npx skills add https://github.com/loonghao/dcc-mcp-houdini --skill houdini-camera-light

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name	houdini-camera-light
description	Authoring skill — create and edit cameras and lights, frame the Scene Viewer, and report active camera/view state through typed tools. Pair with houdini-render for viewport capture and ROP render execution.
license	MIT
compatibility	dcc-mcp-houdini 0.1+, Houdini 20.5+, dcc-mcp-core 0.17+
allowed-tools	Bash Read Write Edit
metadata	{"dcc-mcp":{"dcc":"houdini","layer":"domain","stage":"authoring","version":"1.0.0","tags":["houdini","camera","light","hlight","viewport","view","lookthrough","authoring"],"search-hint":"create camera light hlight intensity color exposure focal resolution frame view look through","tools":"tools.yaml"}}

houdini-camera-light

Typed camera and light authoring for agents. All tools are affinity: main. View tools (frame_view, get_view_state) are UI-aware: in a headless hython session they return a structured warnings payload with framed: false / ui_available: false instead of failing.

Tool groups

camera: list_cameras, create_camera, update_camera.
view: frame_view, get_view_state.
light: create_light, update_light.

Tracer-bullet flow

create_camera(parent_path="/obj", name="shotcam", focal=50, resolution=[1920,1080])
create_light(light_type="distant", intensity=2.0, color=[1,0.95,0.9])
frame_view(camera_path="/obj/shotcam", node_path="/obj/geo1")
get_view_state() → confirm active_camera
hand off to houdini-render (capture_viewport / render)

Light/camera parameter writes are defensive (set only when the parm exists), so they tolerate hlight::2.0 vs older hlight and Karma/Mantra camera variants.

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name	houdini-camera-light
description	Authoring skill — create and edit cameras and lights, frame the Scene Viewer, and report active camera/view state through typed tools. Pair with houdini-render for viewport capture and ROP render execution.
license	MIT
compatibility	dcc-mcp-houdini 0.1+, Houdini 20.5+, dcc-mcp-core 0.17+
allowed-tools	Bash Read Write Edit
metadata	{"dcc-mcp":{"dcc":"houdini","layer":"domain","stage":"authoring","version":"1.0.0","tags":["houdini","camera","light","hlight","viewport","view","lookthrough","authoring"],"search-hint":"create camera light hlight intensity color exposure focal resolution frame view look through","tools":"tools.yaml"}}

houdini-camera-light

Tool groups

camera: list_cameras, create_camera, update_camera.
view: frame_view, get_view_state.
light: create_light, update_light.

Tracer-bullet flow

create_camera(parent_path="/obj", name="shotcam", focal=50, resolution=[1920,1080])
create_light(light_type="distant", intensity=2.0, color=[1,0.95,0.9])
frame_view(camera_path="/obj/shotcam", node_path="/obj/geo1")
get_view_state() → confirm active_camera
hand off to houdini-render (capture_viewport / render)

Light/camera parameter writes are defensive (set only when the parm exists), so they tolerate hlight::2.0 vs older hlight and Karma/Mantra camera variants.