I am using Houdini Apprentice on my Dell laptop. When I first downloaded Houdini, I would always see the default box when I launched Houdini Master. However, after using the Quick Start tutorial from the Help page, I don't see the default box when I launch a fresh scene. I'm pretty sure that I used the box to construct the rocket from the Quick Start tutorial. Could this have caused my problems? How can I get the box back? I hope I don't have to uninstall and reinstall Houdini to get it.

do you mean the scene contents when you first start Houidni?
unless you have made a change to your 123.cmd or 456.cmd when you first start Houdini you should see:
model
ambient1
light1
light2
light3
cam1

you don't need the ‘box’ back…just TAB in a geometry object.

Hi there, did you manage to solve this problem?
I am a total beginner. I have been following the book “The magic of houdini” and it says i should have a default box but i never have since i installed the apprentice version??
jacqui

It's not really a problem with Houdini, it's the documentation or whatever tutorial/book you're using not being up-to-date. Houdini used to start with a default object called “geo1”, which contained a default “file” SOP, which references a box-like piece of data, but that was altered to an empty geo called “model”.

It really doesn't matter as arctor says - you can customize like mad to have Houdini start with anything you want - but for any tutorials I'm pretty sure the first thing they suggest is to delete that file SOP anyway…

Cheers,

J.C.

ah ok thats cool
i realised that the onboard tutorials actually tell you how to put a cube in anyway.
Thankyou for replying
Jacqui

hi
im running through the rocket turorial that you mentioned and at the very beginning it tells youthat once you have made the tube the right size you then press tab and click on cap and then set the parameters. The problem is that i do all the steps as above but nothing happens to my tube. In the network space the cap is attached to the tube but no result in the view panel
Any ideas?
J

Make sure your Tube SOP's Primitive Type parameter is set up to NURBS.

and that the blue Display flag is on the cap