Hi there,
Is there any “by-pass” flag or button for the VEX builder's node?

Thank you for your attention!

By “by-pass” flag I meant, sometimes you may want the temporay disable a node from the whole network. The “by-pass” flag in Sop /pop…… work perfectly but I wonder if there is any “by-pass” flag in the Vex builder? Or will there be any by-pass flag in Houdini 9?

thanks for your attention!

It's not really possible in VOPs because there is no standard “piece of data” flowing from one VOP to the next. For example, if you have a Parameter node that defines colour, which feeds into a Luminance node, which then outputs a float, and then goes into a Displace along Normal node. If you bypass the Luminance node, everything breaks because now you're trying to feed a Colour (vector) into a float, which doesn't work. In SOPs or POPs you're feeding the same data from one node to the next so bypass makes more sense.

Cheers,

Peter B