and cant seem to rectify…

The default setup is with one large view panel on the left side of the screen and your parameter and network panels on the right stacked.
I have somehow, and believe, it realy bugs me that I am not sure how I did this, lost the parameter and network panels, it is not because I just maximized the view panel either…
does anyone know how I can get the default view back?

I know this is probably a real newbish question, but as I said I am new, and was just working on the animation part of the first tutorial.. Thanks in Advance to anyone who can assist me.

DjP

in your view pane go to the “Pane” droupdown > select “split left/right” then you will have two View panes, in the right hand one do the same but this time select “split top/bottom”…now you'll have 3 view panes…in any of them you can now select the type of pane you want with the pane dropdown (viewer/parameters/network etc)

also you might want to have a look at the tutorials here:
http://sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au/houdini_video/index.html [sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au]

and the Houdini 101 course here:
http://www.3dbuzz.com [3dbuzz.com]

Thank you actor.. everything is good again.. Sorry about the obviously ignorant question, and thank you very much for the links.