Cooking this node can generate many USD time samples, rather than just a single time sample at the current time. This can be equivalent to having a Cache LOP following this node, but it will evaluate much faster, and does not cache data from any other nodes. This allows animated data to be authored to USD without introducing a node time dependency which would then cause all following nodes to also be time dependent. This can vastly improve playback performance of some LOP Networks.

In all sampling modes, if a parameter on this node does not vary with time, and does not rely on other time sampled data from the stage, only a single default value will be generated in USD for the corresponding attribute. USD time samples are only generated for parameters that may vary over time.

When the Sampling behavior is Sample Frame Range, this parameter controls the number and spacing of base time samples to be generated by this node. The default values of this parameter are @fstart, @fend, and @finc. These values correspond to the start, end, and step size of the global Houdini animation settings when interacting with Houdini. When using a ROP node to generate a range of frames, these values correspond to the start, end, and increment values specified on the ROP node being executed. This default ensures that a USD file written to disk will contain time samples for exactly the frame range requested by the ROP (regardless of the Houdini animation settings).

For each primary sample generated by this node, these parameters can cause additional samples to be generated around that primary sample time. This is most often used to ensure that accurate data exists at exactly the camera shutter open and close times, as well as at the primary sample time.

Controls the method used to specify the shutter open and close times relative to the primary sample times.

When Shutter is set to Specify Manually, these two offset values are added to the primary sample time to indicate the shutter open and close times. The open time should be less than or equal to zero, and the close time should be greater than or equal to zero.

When Shutter is set to Use Camera Prim, this is the scene graph path of a camera prim on the input node’s stage. The shutter open and close attribute values are read from this primitive.

The number of subframe samples to create for each primary sample. These samples are evenly distributed between the shutter open and close times. Note that such an even distribution may or may not create a sample at exactly the primary sample time.

When turned on, forces a sample to be created at exactly the primary sample time. If the Samples value, together with the shutter open and close times, already place a sample at the primary sample time, turning on this option has no effect. Otherwise, this option causes an addition sample to be added. This means that the actual number of samples per primary sample may in fact be one more than the number specified in the Samples parameter.

Whether the source (the thing to be transformed) is a regular primitive, or a point instance. You cannot use a nested point instance as a source.

When Source Type is Primitive, the scene graph path to the prim to use.

When Source Type is Point Instancer, the point instance to use, using /‹path›[‹instance_index›] syntax (for example, /geometry/instancer[1]).

Where to get the “parent” prim, either the first input or the second input.

Whether the “parent” is a regular primitive, or a point instance.

When Target Type is Primitive, the scene graph path to the prim to use.

When Target Type is Point Instancer, the point instance to use, using /‹path›[‹instance_index›] syntax (for example, /geometry/instancer[1]).

When Target Source is First Input and Type is Primitive, whether to hide set the path’s visibility to “hidden”.

Specify the frame at which the source and/or target geometry are imported into the embedded SOP network to build the constraints.

The default $FF expression forces the constraint LOP to be time dependent, which is needed when operating on a non time-dependent network that has time samples driving the source or target primitives.

However, for better performance with a non time-dependent network with no time samples, it is recommended to use a static value instead.

Inherit position (translation) from the target. If this is off, the target does not affect the source object’s position.

Inherit rotation from the target. If this is off, the target does not affect the source object’s orientation.

Inherit scales from the target. If this is off, the target does not affect the source object’s size.

Inherit shear from the target. If this is off, the target does not affect the source object’s shear.

Get the target’s transform from a different point in the timeline. You can specify an offset in frames or seconds below.

When this is on (the default), the object maintains the relative distance between itself and the target, even though it otherwise inherits the target’s position.

When Relative Offset is on, whether to calculate the offset in frames or seconds.

When Relative Offset is on and Method is By Frame, the relative number of frames ahead or back to get the target’s translation from.

When Relative Offset is on and Method is By Frame, rounds the given frame number to the nearest integer frame, avoiding fractional frame cooking.

When Relative Offset is on and Method is By Time, the number of seconds ahead or back to get the target’s translation from.