Hi

Is it possible to disable wireframe for unselected geometry? I just want wireframe to be shown only on the selected geomtry, the others will be shaded but no wireframe overlay.

thanks

Open the viewport display options (hotkey ‘d’ with your mouse in the viewport). Under the Guides and Markers tab, make sure that “Set display options for” is set to “Normal Geometry”. Set “Draw” to “Smooth Shaded”. Now change “Set display options for” to “Selected Geometry”. Uncheck “Same as normal geometry”. Change “Draw” to “Smooth Wire Shaded”.

Hi

Thanks for the tip. That is very nice and elaborate.

The only thing is that the selected geometry does not like anything beside smooth shaded. When I change the “selected” draw method to “flat wire shaded” or wireframe for example, it stays at smooth shaded. maybe a bug?

<shrugs> It works for me.

Bizarre,

it works for a moment then things get messy if I change those settings multiple times. No idea really.

One other thing is that if I have normal set to smooth, selected set to flat in a fresh Houdini start it works fine, however the second I am in pirimitive mode, I get flat shaded selections but smooth shaded object domain(the selected geometry).

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One other thing is that if I have normal set to smooth, selected set to flat in a fresh Houdini start it works fine, however the second I am in pirimitive mode, I get flat shaded selections but smooth shaded object domain(the selected geometry).

I'm not understanding what you mean. You have “normal set to smooth”, so that means that you want non-selected geometry (ie. non-selected primitives) to be smooth. So the picture you posted is correct.

Hi Edward

Sorry about the confusion, it is even confusing for me. I have been using 3d apps since 90s, normally I should be able to articulate it better I will try to come up with a better screenshot and example


thanks again