As per Jeff's recommendation, creating a new thread.

I have a small usability issue about these settings:



Personally I have never seen or made an asset that had prefixes which could be because the assets I used and made are not gigantic. I can understand the need for this for really big assets where there will be naming collisions, but I think they are in the minority.

IMO it would be pretty useful if these were turned off by default. If you want to make it even better, then when adding parameters, if Houdini realizes that there will be a naming collision from incoming parameters, then it could ask the user if he wants these settings to be turned on? If yes, then it would turn these on before adding the parameters. If not, then no parameter would be added.

EDIT: Another advantage to this would be to have shorter parameter names to use in expressions. SESI is smart to use short parameter names for operators, but if there were additional prefixes, then it negates the advantage IMO.

Also I wouldn't want to refer to “box7_testbed_size” to change size personally. A hand created “bedSize” or if it's the only size, then “size”, or “s” is much nicer I think.

Windows > desktop > save current layout

Should do the trick

Rob

Does it save the asset settings too? I never thought it would. Have to try

Thanks Rob.

Thank-you for the new thread.

Yes the saving of the preferences should work.

The second part of this request is to have these two settings off instead of on as the default. As I mentioned I always turn These off myself and save the pref. I rarely find the need to enable them. Invariably I'll customize the parm names myself to be more descriptive if necessary.

If there are a couple more yays I'll submit the RFE.

Thank you Jeff. I really like discussing potential RFEs with the masters

yay.

i'd like to add my vote to this.

RFE Submitted ID=51112.