I’ve moved almost entirely to VS Code for my projects (with the exception of C++ projects in Visual Studio for e.g. Cinema 4D plugins). It’s fast and has lots of useful functions, many of which are provided through extensions. If you’re interested, this is my current list of extensions (can be obtained from the command […]
Tag: Scripting

Incremental Save in Houdini
Increasing your scene file’s version number is something you (hopefully) do often. The built in version isn’t as flexible as I’d like, so… here you go. You can add this Python script to your shelf and then, through the magic of pushing a button, save your currently open scene to the next version. The script follows […]

Force domain-wide Group Policy update
Since we moved our workstations to a Windows domain, the administration of those workstations has become significantly easier. One of the reasons for this are of course Group Policies. However, sometimes it’s rather inconvenient to have to wait for the clients to update their GPOs from the server, which can take a while. Instead, you can […]

PowerShell Grep Sed
If you’re familiar with grep and sed on Linux, you may come to miss them in a Windows environment (although the WSL subsystem / GNU tools for Windows exist, so…). Thankfully, with Powershell we have equally competent tools at hand. Select-String -Pattern ‘myRegexPattern’ -Path ‘fileToSearch.txt’ -AllMatches | % { $_.Matches.Value -replace “old”,”new” } Select-String will take […]