When selecting components in Houdini and point selection is active with "show all objects", so all background objects are clearly visible. Somehow background point visibility works differently then edge or polygon visibility, a bug maybe ?

Because when in point selection mode, the points of all background geometry are visible as well and when working with a lot of high rez geo, the viewport turns into a sea of blue points.

Is there some secret way to hide background points just like edges or polygons ? Because this makes modeling in Houdini even more frustrating then it already is.

btw, I know I can "Ghost Other Object" to hide points, but then background objects are semi transparent, which is something you sometimes don't want.

You must disable "follow selection mask" under display Options/guides.

Cheers
CYTE

That seems to do the trick, thanks a lot.

What a strange preference, and why does this apply to points only, and not other components one might wonder.