houdini-trackpad

This plugin enables multitouch gestures in Houdini's viewport for Macbooks running OSX. Controls:

• Tumble/scroll using two fingers
• Dolly/zoom using pinch gesture
• Pan by holding Alt and two finger scroll
• Hold Shift with any gesture to slow down movement

In v0.2:

• Rotate using rotate gesture

Download v0.1 pre-release

Place the TrackpadHook.dylib binary in ~/Library/Preferences/houdini/[version]/dso in order to install.

Build from source

export VERSION = 17.5.229 # change this to your version of Houdini installation
source /Applications/Houdini/Houdini$VERSION/Frameworks/Houdini.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/houdini_setup
git clone https://github.com/mate-h/houdini-trackpad
cd houdini-trackpad/build
cmake ../src
make

Run test program with python

python3 -m pip install -U pygame==2.0.0.dev6 --user
python3 -m pip install -U numpy --user
python3 src/scripts/multitouch-test.py