It happened again. For the n-th time in recent history a new user was (understandably) confused by the naming of viewports in Houdini and mistakenly considered the Channel Editor as being the viewport for CHOPs.
Of course any sane individual will think that since CHOPs are Channel Operators, then their visual editor is the Channel Editor. Seems logic and intuitive.
Also, any Houdini user with a little bit of experience knows that CHOPs are generic data manipulators, so they are frequently used as audio manipulators, geometry manipulators, as IK solvers, constraints, relationship builders, visual expression language and so on. So CHOPs are not (only) motion editors, that could be visually edited in something called (guess what) Motion View.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the logic behind this naming which sometimes seems designed to confuse people on purpose?
Dragos