Searcher
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Searcher brings the “Search Everything” functionality found in many modern Content Creation Suites and IDE’s such as JetBrains ‘Shift+Shift’ search (PyCharm, Rider, Webstorm, etc), Blender, Maya, and many others, to Houdini.
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Quickly locate and execute any menu item or hotkeyable action without the need to assign, memorize, or manage hotkeys.
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View available actions for windows and panes on mouse-over
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Greatly increase productivity. Spend less time trying to locate nested menu items or remembering hundreds of hotkeys
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Optimized for responsiveness. Utilizes libraries written in C to maximize speed
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Search for any available native or 3rd party menu items or actions. Locates available 3rd party menus/actions/hotkeys
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Fuzzy, abbreviated, partial search via FTS5 engine. Ex. Quickly locate “External Tool Preferences” by typing “ex to pre”
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Show all available actions for windows/panes/contexts. Mouseover a window and press hotkey to display the available actions/hotkeys
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Open menu items/trigger actions from the Searcher window. Execute available actions even if they don’t have a hotkey assigned
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Feature requests welcome and encouraged! If you think Searcher could benefit from an additional feature, let us know!
Compatibility notes
Tested versions
| OS | Version |
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 Windows: |
Windows 10 Pro v10.0.19041.264 (v2004) |
 Linux: |
Pop_OS! (Ubuntu) 19.04/19.10/20.04 |
 MacOS: |
Coming soon! |
Requires: Houdini 18.0.348 and up
Current Version: v0.1.1