Guidelines is an HDA I built over a weekend to practice Houdini’s Python Viewer States. The goal was also to create an image composition toolkit to assist with 3D layout work in Houdini.

If you’d like to use it or simply explore how it works, you can download it below.

The tool supports the following composition guides:

• Center
• Rule of Thirds
• Diagonal
• Circular
• Pyramid
• Fibonacci
• Aspect Ratio
• Vanishing Lines
• Leading Lines
• Reference Image

Here’s a quick demo of the tool in action: