Hi guys

This one is a must to make a HDA for...
What I need many times, is to be able to use an attribute. That I have spent many hours making, only to not be able to use it on nodes, that I would like to past a relative reference to as this would make a simple task simple.

Instead attribute wrangles etc, are needed to grab the attribute. Making simple tasks complex.

I would like to make an HDA to pick point/prim/etc which attributes you want to become exposed in the HDAs' box so it can be copied as a relative reference.

Any ideas how to go about this ??

Can you explain, with an example, what you want to achieve but can't atm? It's hard to understand what you need.

Cheers
CYTE

you can also try RMB on parameter/Reference/Scene Data, navigate to a node you want to reference attribute value from, pick attribute, select element in the viewport, Enter

say you do a measure and want to paste the length into a node somewhere. like the twist section on a sweep node so I could get 10 twists per meter. If I could access the attribute length without any difficulty I would be able to just paste it as a reference and multiply it by the amount of twist wanted.

I was making some barbed wire and I was thinking how much better it would be if I had a node. I could drop down to access any of the the data in my geo spread sheet and paste as ref as a 1 meter wire would twist less than 3 meters

Getyamamout
I was making some barbed wire and I was thinking how much better it would be if I had a node. I could drop down to access any of the the data in my geo spread sheet and paste as ref as a 1 meter wire would twist less than 3 meters

for this particular example you can just use Per Unit Distance option in Twist Per dropdown