Hello,

I was working on an Ari tutorial with Houdini 14 a couple weeks ago.

Installed H.15 and wanted to go through the same tutorial again but it calls for dropping down a Geometry Node of which I cannot see/find in Houdini 15.

Is there an equivalent to a Geometry node or is it now under a new name?

Thanks

The geometry node is still there in H15.

It's not in mine.

I use to TAB and begin typing Geo…. and then be able to get it.

But no longer.

I TABed and looked under ALL and it's not listed, which is why I thought it may be under a different name.

ok so it does….

what happened is that I had a sphere and was in that sphere…deleted the sphere but didn't realize I had only deleted its sub-node.

So in that case geometry node is not available at that level.

going up one level to actually delete the whole sphere solved the problem.

sorry for creating any confusion.

There's a checkbox in the preferences under General User Interface, to color the pane headers based on context, which is helpful for avoiding this kind of confusion in the future.

I really like the Houdini acronyms. So what for Houdini speak naysayers. It rocks.


If it were me I'd say “add a Geo Object” which means go to /obj and tab geo.

What's a Geo node? Object Geo container node? Geometry ROP? Not a SOP… It's ambiguous.

As for SOPs, if you are adding SOPs I say SOPs.

After a couple days you know Objects, SOPs, DOPs, ROPs.

Rant out.

Thanks danBode for that tip….

I switched that on; looks good and blends well with the rest of the UI, at the same time it's quicker than looking to read the type of the tab to figure out which level I am at.