This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 — Slow and Steady

If you've ever used Houdini for VFX, Procedural modelling, animation or CG content creation then you're probably familiar with its help-browser. Houdini's help-browser is a very useful source of documentation for any user looking for more information about all parts of Houdini. However, It is not context-aware, and does not know how a user's node networks are wired, or what parameter settings have been applied to a given or selected node. I built a new shelf tool that stays on that displays more details about actively selected nodes and uses the currently installed local-help file that shipped with the user's version of Houdini.

What I Built

houdini-wizard is a super-charged help-browser shelf tool. With any node selected, it will display organised documentation that updates based on what node is actively selected in the node network viewer.…