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Digital Assets
Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) are an extremely powerful way of extending Houdini. With these, you can package up all kinds of custom tools and hand them off to other users, or to yourself, for later use. You can hide the grimy details, so that the user just deals with the problem as he would like to think of it. You can embed any arbitrary data, including scripts, images or a list of all your favorite pizza restaurants – they don’t care. This chapter deals with getting more out of these amazing tools.
Giving Assets a Representative Type
When you create a digital asset that is meant to be a custom camera or light, you would like to see that object appear in menus where cameras (or lights) are expected. To get this to happen, ...
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