Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to have what is visibly displayed in the viewport show something different from what is actually being output? Maybe there's a way to do it through the viewer state? Though typically that's more an overlay so not sure if it's capable of overriding the node output view.

I could set the output to be invisible and add what I want to show as the Guide Geometry but that is not ideal at all.

You can access the scene viewer and pass geo through drawables: hou.SimpleDrawable [www.sidefx.com]

For interactive stuff same principles with viewer states; for simple wireframe hdas guide geo.

If you don't want your actual output to display at all, then create an output with the index -1, and then in your viewer state script you can use


You can take a look at the Otis Muscle and Tissue Configure state to see options for having the alternative output always display, or only display when you're in the viewer state.