Hi there! I have a character rig I created in Houdini and I was having a little trouble with bones being accidentally picked. This bone for example gets accidentally picked often It's node is set to non selectable but it still gets selected (I think) because some of it's parameters are stored in the top level of the HDA. Is there a way to block that? I don't ever want to select it but I want those paramaters to be available in the setup(edit) section of my HDA in case I need to change the proportions of the character.
The cleanest way currently I think would be to duplicate (object merge) the display geo and hide the actual bone object… If you wanted to be quicker and dirtier about it you could try changing the channel refs on the bone to something like `1 * ch(“../my_drive_chan”)` , this would force it to be an expressions rather than a channel reference, which the HDA can't expose to viewport handles,
Hee, this looks to be reproducible with a *very* particular set of conditions…
The HDA itself needs it selectable flag set on, and it seems like the bone object needs to be displaying some custom geo (couldn't reproduce with the bonelink set as the bone display SOP). Turning the HDA selectable flag off prevents the bone selection again…
I have had a similar issue with skin geometry inside a rig HDA, where the HDA selectable flag needs to be turned off to prevent selection of the mesh.
Hey thanks for checking that out guys. I was asleep ! Is funny that I generated that perfect storm of bad times I often use custom geo for bones, I like it because you can get more of an idea of the characters form without adding the skinned geo.
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