Return the value stored in this primitive for a particular attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object.

Looking an attribute value using a hou.Attrib object is slightly faster than looking it up by name. When looking up attribute values inside a loop, look up the hou.Attrib object outside the loop, and pass it into this method.

When looking up the attribute values of all primitives, it is faster to call hou.Geometry.primFloatAttribValues() or hou.Geometry.primFloatAttribValuesAsString() than to call this method for each primitive in the geometry.

Raises hou.OperationFailed if no attribute exists with this name.

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular floating point attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object.

Raises hou.OperationFailed if no attribute exists with this name or the attribute is not float of size 1.

In most cases, you’ll just use hou.Prim.attribValue() to access attribute values. Houdini uses this method internally to implement attribValue.

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular floating point attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object. The return value is a tuple of floats.

It is valid to call this method when the attribute’s size is 1. In this case, a tuple with one element is returned.

See also hou.Prim.attribValue().

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular integer attribute of size 1. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object. See hou.Point.floatAttribValue() for more information.

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular integer attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object. The return value is a tuple of ints. See hou.Prim.floatListAttribValue() for more information.

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular string attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object. See hou.Prim.floatAttribValue() for more information.

Return the primitive attribute value for a particular string attribute. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object. The return value is a tuple of strings.

It is valid to call this method when the attribute’s size is 1. In this case, a tuple with one element is returned.

See also hou.Prim.attribValue().

Store an attribute value in this primitive. The attribute may be specified by name or by hou.Attrib object, and must be an existing primitive attribute in the geometry. You would typically call this method from the code of a Python-defined SOP.

Raises hou.OperationFailed if no attribute exists with this name or if the attribute’s data type does not match the value passed in. If the attribute’s size is more than 1, the attribute value must be a sequence of integers/floats, and the size of the sequence must match the attribute’s size.

Raises hou.GeometryPermissionError if this geometry is not modifiable.

# Create a float primitive attribute of size 3 named "Cd", and assign
# each primitive a unique color.  This code will work from inside a Python
# SOP, but not from the Python shell.
geo = hou.pwd().geometry()
color_attrib = geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Prim, "Cd", (1.0, 1.0, 1.0))
num_prims = len(geo.prims())
color = hou.Color()
for prim in geo.prims():
    fraction = float(prim.number()) / num_prims
    # Give each primitive a different hue, but full saturation and value.
    # Store the RGB value in the attribute.
    color.setHSV((fraction * 255, 1, 1))
    prim.setAttribValue(color_attrib, color.rgb())

Return the enumerated value hou.attribType.Prim. Points, primitives, vertices, and geometry support the same set of methods for querying their attributes, and this method is one of them.

See also:

• hou.Point.attribType()

• hou.Vertex.attribType()

• hou.Geometry.attribType()

• hou.attribType

Returns a dictionary mapping intrinsic names to their values.

Given normalized (i.e. from 0 to 1) u, v, w values, return the interior position of the primitive at that parametric location.

Use hou.Face.positionAt() for querying positions along the perimeter.

Return an attribute value at the normalized u, v, w parametric position in the interior of the primitive.

Raises hou.OperationFailed if the attribute is not a point or vertex attribute. If you want a primitive attribute value, it doesn’t vary across the surface, so use hou.Prim.attribValue().

Use hou.Face.attribValueAt() for querying attributes along the perimeter.

Return the hou.Geometry object containing this primitive.

Return the number of this primitive. Primitives are numbered sequentially starting from 0, and the primitives returned by hou.Geometry.prims() are in order by their number.

Return a hou.primType value containing the type of this primitive (e.g. polygon, NURBS curve, metaball, etc).

Return a sequence of the vertices contained in this primitive.

If the primitive is a face (e.g. a polygon or NURBS curve), the result corresponds to the order of the vertices in that face. If it is a surface (e.g. a NURBS mesh), however, the primitive has a 2D array of vertices, and this method returns all vertices in the 2D array, ordered by the rows.

See hou.Surface.vertex() for more information about the relationship between the 2D vertex array and the sequential vertex index, and for more ways to access the vertices in a surface.

A shortcut for len(self.vertices()). You probably don’t need to call this method.

A shortcut for self.vertices()[index]. You probably don’t need to call this method.

This method supports negative indices to index from the end, just like self.vertices()[index] would. Also, like Python’s indexing operator, it will raise IndexError when the index is out of range.

Return an axis-aligned 3D bounding box that is sized and positioned to be large enough to hold this primitive.

Given a sequence of three floats containing a position, find the location on this primitive that is closest to that position. Returns a tuple containing the u value on this primitive, the v value on this primitive, and the distance to this primitive.

Return a tuple of the primitive groups that contain this primitive.

Returns the local 3×3 transform associated with this primitive. The transform doesn’t include the local point transform or any transforms inside the primitive (for example, transforms inside an Alembic file).

Returns the full 4×4 transform for this primitive’s geometry. This includes translations due to points and any transforms inside the primitive (for example, transforms inside an Alembic file).

Sets this primitive’s local transform. This sets the local 3×3 transform and the translation of the point. This does not affect any transforms inside the primitive (for example, transforms inside an Alembic file).

Raises hou.GeometryPermissionError if this geometry is not modifiable.