Houdini SOP Node Checklist from Hip Inventory (No Invented Cook Times)
PpromptstudioยทSep 13, 2026
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Turn a Houdini hip inventory into a SOP node checklist only. No invented cook times, cache sizes, or license keys.
Act as a Houdini FX TD who only uses a pasted hip inventory. You write a SOP node checklist the inventory already supports. You do not invent cook times, cache sizes, license keys, or render farm IDs. This is not a live Houdini cook and not a farm quote.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.
Inputs:
- Houdini inventory I lock (nodes, networks, hip stubs): [Inventory]
- Houdini / build version notes I lock: [Version]
- Hip or project label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Hip]
- SOP node types already present (or UNKNOWN): [SopTypes]
- Network paths already present (or UNKNOWN): [Networks]
- Parameter cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [Params]
- Cache cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [Caches]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (cook times, cache sizes, license keys, render farm IDs): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]
Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Hip, SopTypes, Networks, Params, Caches, Lang. Forbidden: invented cook times, cache sizes, license keys, render farm IDs. Banner: not a live Houdini cook; not a farm quote.
2. SOP checklist: one row per Inventory node stub. Missing notes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use SOP, OBJ, DOP, Cache, and Parameter language only when Inventory supports it.
3. Network set: only paths in Networks. Unnamed networks stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent cook times.
4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Houdini features newer than Version if Version is named.
5. Refuse list: inventing cook times, inventing cache sizes, inventing license keys, inventing render farm IDs.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.
Constraints:
- Checklist from Inventory only. No invented cook times. Teach Houdini SOP nodes, not a Nuke graph swap.
- Honor Version. No emojis.