I'm a new Houdini (Indie) user (but not new to 3D) and I'm just working my way through all the learning material to introduce myself to Houdini's magical ways! I thought I'd start with the most recent content as I'm using H21; being the Foundations series:
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/h21-foundations-welcome/ [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/h21-foundations-smashing-wineglass/ [www.sidefx.com]
Firstly, amazing learning content (just so impressed being from a educational background) and I've absorbed everything I can from dissecting them and my mind is truly blown (coming from MODO and 3DS etc) ...basically already smitten with Houdini! :P
There's just one thing I noticed during both of these tutorials (a difference between my own Solaris 'MaterialLinker-NODE' view, and Robert Magee's in the Tutorials).
As such, I just wanted to check that what I'm seeing in my layout is normal (having duplicated the tutorials verbatim) as there's a discrepancy between them and I just thought I'd check with the dev's/community in case I goofed somewhere along the way!? Or is it just a tree display setting/filter option type thing?
It's only a small difference and nothing is broken, but there appears to be a duplicate series of references to scene assets that aren't shown in the tutorial. And then it did the exact same thing again with the second tutorial at which point it freaked me out!
NOTE: The Scene Graph looks normal despite the material linker panel showing duplicate asset references... also the duplicates appear to differ as they contain 2 meshes per asset. thus I was unsure if this represents the 'inside and outside' of the models (as 2 sided requires an additional mesh to draw the other side) ...but that's just a guess!
If its not an issue that's fine, but I just figured that as this is a basic scene there's little to confuse currently, but if it was a busy production scene with say a 1000+ assets, then that would mean there could be an additional 2000+ phantom asset references (eek), which would be a recipe for confusion! As such, I just thought it best to check right at the start so I don't adopt any misunderstanding's of Houdini's magical worksflow early on in my learning path (which I'm so enjoying BTW, Houdini is just wild)! :P
As such is this a bug or is it a feature?
Naturally, any help or advice is very much appreciated - Thanks!
