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

Houdini name fog

OpenGL fog style. This may be one of

  • off – No fog.

  • linear – Linear fog.

  • exp – Exponential fog.

  • exp2 – Squared exponential fog.

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.