Hey there
I was wondering if there was any keyboard shortcuts to navigate you between different networks.
At the moment I stick to putting chops and materials within sops because I can use the u and i to get in and out
I'd use the different neworks more if I could navigate quickly tio them.
It'd be nice to get a print out of the keyboard shortcuts too is there one knocking about
john

a quick way from /out to /img and vice versa would be great.

why would this be useful?
not so much people here use /img, /ch, /part many often, maybe just for a simple scene or test/example scene
because you have the ability to have /img /ch /… network node nested anywhere, what if you want to go to /obj/my_hda/img ?
in a slightly more complex scene you can have many /img, /ch, /.. nodes so there is wasting of shortcut to get you to just a single one

what I am used to is to have a Tree View still present on my desktop, like in Technical Desktop
there you just click on the node you want and booom, your network editor gets updated and if you are using Context View instead of Scene View then it too gets updated to whatever context you are currently in

this is faster and more flexible than any shortcut, or many shortcuts

I now have a permanent Tree view pane on my Houdini desktop. Thanks Tomas.. can't believe I didn't think of this before.

To the OP; try “split pane left/right”, and make one of them a treeview (sorry if that's obvious). And then window - desktops - save desktop when you are happy with it.

Or you can switch to the Technical Desktop and make it the default which I recommend as one of the important steps to mastering Houdini. It has a tree view on the left and the Details View and python/hscript panes below the viewport which I use very often.

You can customize the Technical desktop and save your own desktop as you customize the desktop further.

The tree view is a terrific tool for navigating your scene.

Thanks for the tip Jeff, I'll give that a try. (I had wondered where to enter Python commands!)

Thanks for the response people
Yep need to get using the tree more , I didn't realise it navigated you to the different environments as well as giving you an over view.
I'm using the technical view more now, as it gives you more room to build complex networks of nodes, I realised recently I was doing half the work in one tiny corner of my monitor , daft.
About the keyboard hotkeys , is there any lists anywhere I could make a print out for easy reference?
cheers all
john