Hey, I'm trying to get up to speed with Houdini and I've hit a wall and not sure how to proceed.

I've been following along with this tutorial:

https://www.cgcircuit.com/course/applied-houdini—rigids-i [www.cgcircuit.com]

@ 3:40, within obj he creates a dopnet node.

However, I do not seem to have a dopnet node. Search in TAB for “dop” gives me only dopI/O and Dop import*. Search for “net” shows me POP, ROP, SHOP, SOP, and VOP Networks but no DOP.

Can anyone help out a newbie here and tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Using Houdini16.0.621 on Windows 7

thanks

The key is that the DOP Network was created in /obj. In your screen shot you are inside a geo object (at the SOP level). DOP Networks are Object nodes, not SOP nodes. Hope that helps.

Thank you for getting back to me. However, I guess I'm still confused. In the video I'm referencing it shows him creating the dopnet inside of the sop level. I'm attaching a screengrab from the video below.

Additionally, even if I go up to the obj/ level I cannot create the dopnet their either. Under the ‘managers’ folder I see POP, ROP, SHOP, SOP, and VOP Networks but still no DOP.

I'm sure it's just my user error but I sure as heck cant figure it out.

tony

Ok, this is solved. I downloaded and installed 16.0.671 and now I have dopnet. Makes no sense, but at least I can proceed.

t

Weird. Sorry to have led you astray. My only other thought is that if you were running Houdini Core instead of Houdini FX? Houdini Core hides some tools (like DOP Networks)… Perhaps you hit the wrong Start Menu entry?

You know, that was probably the case. Thanks!