{"id":1063,"date":"2026-01-07T00:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:18:03","slug":"archived-post-by-shadeops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/01\/07\/archived-post-by-shadeops\/","title":{"rendered":"Archived post by shadeops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p class=\"\">Prior to Houdini 21, when ever you installed an HDA to your hip, `hou.hda.installFile()`, it would internally run the `dsreload` hscript command which rebuilt all the shelves and toolbars. Which for one HDA isn&#8217;t expensive. But this would happen for every HDA installed, and the more HDAs you installed the longer it would take. So they added a hou.hda.installFiles() as a way to batch it, which triggers a single `dsreload` at the very end. Internally when loading a hip the same thing would happen, so they changed the hip file loading to batch load them as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Houdini 21, when ever you installed an HDA to your hip, `hou.hda.installFile()`, it would internally run the `dsreload` hscript command which rebuilt all the shelves and toolbars. Which for one HDA isn&#8217;t expensive. But this would happen for every HDA installed, and the more HDAs you installed the longer it would take. So &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/01\/07\/archived-post-by-shadeops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archived post by shadeops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}