SceneTalk

This repo is the WIP evolution of the Houdini automation infrastructure behind Mythica GG.

It provides a WebSocket and framing to do real-time 3D scene interchange.

RFC for binary protocol is under development

In this repo:

• Dockerfile to run Houdini HDK inside a web server
• Test HTML client
• Test Python client
• Blender Plugin to use the protocol
• Controller script that hosts the server process
• Demo HDAs

Building and Running

You will need SFX_CLIENT_ID and SFX_CLIENT_SECRET from SideFX.com

Create a local environment file with your Houdini license key information:

testing.env

SFX_CLIENT_ID=<client-id>
SFX_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret>
MYTHICA_ENDPOINT=http://host.docker.internal:8080 #LINUX 

Build the image

docker build . -t mythica-scenetalk

Run the image

docker run -it --rm \
  --env-file testing.env \
  -p 8765:8765 \
  --name scentalk \
  mythica-scenetalk

#For Linux:
docker run -it --rm \
  --env-file testing.env \
  -p 8765:8765 \
  --name scentalk \
  mythica-scenetalk \
  --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
  --network storage \
  --name scenetalk \
  mythica-scenetalk

Open test_client.html to test the web client

Installing the Blender Plugin

Zip up blender_scenetalk and drop it onto Blender 4.2 LTS to test from Blender.

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