I'm probably not the first, but maybe an idea to implement “Sticky Keys” in Houdini ? It would make it a lot less “clicky”, very often you just want to shortly access a tool while in another mode.

Especially while modeling you don't want to switch between the “select” and “translate” all the time. You just want to stay in “translate” while simply selecting new geo with a sticky key. Very frustrating.

Coming from Softimage Houdini is sooo much “clickyer”.

Also maybe an idea to close palettes like the color panel automatically when you click anywhere else in the interface. Feels a bit clunky you have to click the “close” button every time after picking a color.

R

Maybe I am missing something but this works already…to some degree.

If you hold down s while Transform is active, it should work just as Softimage did it. And vice versa.

Yes that's true, wrong example. But why only a sticky “s” key then ?

If I shortly want to switch between rotate and scale or translate or a render region it also would be helpful ?

toonafish
Yes that's true, wrong example. But why only a sticky “s” key then ?

If I shortly want to switch between rotate and scale or translate or a render region it also would be helpful ?

Yep! Please submit a RFE for this. I will do the same.

great, will do !!

Thanks.

Ronald