Tired of Opening Menus? Quickly Change Houdini’s Viewport Background!
While working in Houdini, I often find it annoying to change the viewport background color.
In houdini, changing the viewport background color takes several steps: press the D key to open the Display Options window, switch to the Background tab, and then change the Color Scheme.
I often switch the bavkground color to check how things look. In Maya, I'm used to quickly changing it with Alt + B, so I looked for a similar shortcut in Houdini. However, I couldn't find any hotkey for it. That's when I thought, "I'll just create one myself", and wrote the code.
To use it as a hotkey, register the script in the Script tab of the Houdini shelf. Then switch to the Hotkey tab and assign any key you like. This way, you can toggle the background color with a hotkey.
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Since Alt + B was already in use, I assigned it to Shift + Alt + B.
I’ve uploaded it to GitHub — you can grab it from HERE.