diff --git a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_alembic_camera.py b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_alembic_camera.py
index 294c99744b..483c4205a8 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_alembic_camera.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_alembic_camera.py
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ class CreateAlembicCamera(plugin.HoudiniCreator):
             "use_sop_path": False,
         }
 
-        if self._nodes:
-            path = self._nodes[0].path()
+        if self.selected_nodes:
+            path = self.selected_nodes.path()
             # Split the node path into the first root and the remainder
             # So we can set the root and objects parameters correctly
             _, root, remainder = path.split("/", 2)
diff --git a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_pointcache.py b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_pointcache.py
index 889e27ba51..239f3ce50b 100644
--- a/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_pointcache.py
+++ b/openpype/hosts/houdini/plugins/create/create_pointcache.py
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ class CreatePointCache(plugin.HoudiniCreator):
             "filename": "$HIP/pyblish/{}.abc".format(subset_name)
         }
 
-        if self._nodes:
-            parms["sop_path"] = self._nodes[0].path()
+        if self.selected_nodes:
+            parms["sop_path"] = self.selected_nodes[0].path()
 
         instance_node.setParms(parms)
         instance_node.parm("trange").set(1)