Hi,

So not sure if this is a bug or a limitation. I'm just trying to use $CEX,$CEY,$CEZ to center the translate pivot prior to doing a transform. This works perfectly fine with a transform SOP, but a Copy and Transform SOP does not.

Is this expected?

H17.5.229 - Linux.

Thanks,
Ollie

Yeah, that won't work. Try the centroid() expression:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/expressions/centroid.html [www.sidefx.com]

Thanks, good to know and will do.

Can you explain why that does not work? I'm following a tutorial where is certainly used to.

Thanks,
Ollie

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Can you explain why that does not work? I'm following a tutorial where is certainly used to.
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there is no more Copy SOP in Houdini, the old Copy SOP (probably what you see in tutorial) was renamed to Copy Stamp SOP and still should work as in tutorial
the new copy operators are named Copy To Points SOP and Copy And Transform SOP and those don't allow local variables as local variables are being phased out due to performance and other reasons