Properties
Viewport properties
Overview
These properties control viewport display of objects. They are in the Viewport folder in the list of properties available under the For rendering tab of the Edit parameter interface window. Select a node, and in the parameter editor click the
Gear menu and choose Edit rendering properties to add or remove properties to a render driver, camera, object, shader, or properties node.
Properties
Camera/light properties
| Houdini name | clear |
The amount to clear the viewport. This allows for pseudo motion blur, ghosting, and other feedback effects.
| Houdini name | vcomment |
When you attach this property to a camera or light, the comment you set appears in the upper left corner of the viewport when you're looking through the camera/light. This can be useful to document cameras and lights for artists.
Fog properties
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off– No fog. -
linear– Linear fog. -
exp– Exponential fog. -
exp2– Squared exponential fog.
| Houdini name | fog |
OpenGL fog style. This may be one of
| Houdini name | fogdensity |
The density of the fog.
| Houdini name | fogcolor |
The color of the fog.
| Houdini name | fogalpha |
The alpha of the fog.
| Houdini name | fognear |
Where the fog begins.
| Houdini name | fogfar |
Where the fog reaches its maximum effect.
Mask properties
| Houdini name | maskaspect |
The aspect of the viewport mask.
| Houdini name | maskopacity |
The opacity of the viewport mask.
| Houdini name | maskoverlay |
The SOP which specifies the geometry to for the mask overlay.
Rotoscope properties
| Houdini name | rotofile |
Disk file for roto image.
| Houdini name | overridesize |
Enable override for disk file size.
| Houdini name | filesize |
Disk file size.
| Houdini name | coppath |
Path to COP for roto image.
| Houdini name | copframe |
Frame at which to evaluate COP.
| Houdini name | copcolor |
The name of the COP’s color plane.
| Houdini name | copalpha |
Name of the COP’s alpha plane.
| Houdini name | trackwin |
Apply camera zoom to roto image.
Light properties
| Houdini name | ogl_enablelight |
Allows the light to be disabled or active in the viewport.
Output driver properties
| Houdini name | soho_viewport_menu |
Attach this property to a SOHO render driver to control whether it appears in the viewport render menu.