Blue/Green borders around nodes - what do they stand for?

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As the image shows, my light node has a blue border around it, and other nodes have green borders.

What does it mean? And more importantly, where is it documented?

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They represent layers, its briefly mentioned here:

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/solaris/ui.html [www.sidefx.com]
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They represent layers, its briefly mentioned here:

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/solaris/ui.html [www.sidefx.com]

Thank you very much. The weird thing is that sometimes these layer color codes change themselves after I close/re-open Houdini. Is it normal? I found it extremely confusing...

It's assured that I did absolutely nothing between picture 1 and picture 2, except re-open Houdini.

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Thank you very much. The weird thing is that sometimes these layer color codes change themselves after I close/re-open Houdini. Is it normal? I found it extremely confusing...

It's assured that I did absolutely nothing between picture 1 and picture 2, except re-open Houdini.

They're the same though. The same run of nodes edit the same layer and share the same color.
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I assume its a randomly generated colour, similar to the random colours you get in the viewport if you display groups with the 9 hotkey.
Edited by mestela - Nov. 19, 2021 22:16:50
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