I'm fed up with the black background which is by default, can't I specify its color??

Simply put a solid white texture in the “background image” parameter found in your camera view tab with the same resolution and pixel aspect.

thanks a lot!

is it the only way? can't I specify the background color within houdini ?

Hi,

You can set a background colour or image in Mplay. Type ‘d’ to open Display Options, Background tab and set the Background Color/File.

After hitting Accept, you have to toggle Transparency which is Ctrl+Shift+t. If you would like the colour you set to be the default, click on the “Save as Default” button in Display Options dialog.

Hope the above helps.

Cheers!
steven

Interesting… I thought that the op: expression would work, but I tried and it didn't. I even found a thread where it's sort of explained why, but it didn't make much sense to me still. Can anybody enlighten me?

Cheers