Hello..

Im having an Apprentice editon of Houdini 5.5 and working with it is sure fun and exciting. but, I m not able to complete some tutorials which I downloaded from the net, since Im not able to find the “METERIAL EDITOR” and “TEXTURE EDITOR” :cry:
need help and any suggetions are pleased.

Bye…

Are these tutorials you downloaded from the net for 6 version?
5.5 version doesn't have “METERIAL EDITOR” and “TEXTURE EDITOR”.

The Tutorials are based for the 5.5 ver and Im not able to find out how to acces those things specified in the tutorials.

well if needed to check the tutorials, please find them in the tutorials section of the below link
"http://www.sidefx.com/community/learn/rendering/index.html/Texturing_mapping.pdf [sidefx.com]"

for that, I had only the OBJ,SOP,POP,CHOP,VOP,VEX,SHOP but, not the MATs,TOPs.

Sorry, 6 version doesn't have “METERIAL EDITOR” and “TEXTURE EDITOR” also.
Texturing_mapping.pdf you mention is for 4 version.
You can see such words, “Houdini Training V4.0”, at the corner
of some pages.
Both 5 and 6 version don't have MATs and TOPs.

ooh…ops:

so, that's the matter then… I was watching the old ones.

Thanx for the help. and by the way, would u help me out for any tutorials on the texturing for the 5.5 of 6.0?

bye..

I'm a beginner to Houdini.
I am very glad my answer is helpful to you.
Very glad to learn Houdini along with you.

If you are running Houdini 5.5 you can still have what youre looking for.
Create a new system variable called HOUDINI_COPTOPMAT and give it a value of 1. This will enable the old COPs along with TOPs and MATs.
Houdini 6 as it was stated earlier, doesn't have it anymore.

Thank you, Stremik.
In the Dialogs > Edit
Aliases/Variables… dialog,
I create a new system variable called HOUDINI_COPTOPMAT and give it a value of 1.
Then close the dialog window, but can't see COP, TOP and MAT.
Why?

well.. thx for ur suggetion.. helpful hint by stremik.

any one can help me find some good PDFs on texturing and material manipulation in Houdini 5.5 above??? when I use other softwares like max and maya, I just needed to create the phong or somting like that shaders but in houdini it's entirely different. need help on texturing in maya.

I used the methods of applying shaders in max to maya and now Im fine at texturing in maya. but the knowledge of these softwares is no use with this one. so, I desperatly need the techiques used to texture models in houdini.

Bye…