I have sent this as RFE for some time now and it seems to be very low in the priority list.
I would love a better color picker and for ramp/gradients: it would be great to implement something like substance designer has.

When will this be fixed??

edit: going back to nvidia driver 416.34.0.0 fixed it.

Same issue here. drop autoseam sop and it immediately crash.

Some mention of TOPs in the Documentation:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/topnet.html [www.sidefx.com]

and PDG mentioned here:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/TopNode.html [www.sidefx.com]

Midphase
Enlighten me then.

LOPs sounds more like Look Development Context.

I hope LOPs will be a new context that unifies COP and MAT Context.

kind of disappointed with the non existent modeling updates. still stuck with thar awful polybevel sop. damnit.

Damn yea this would be great.

anyone found any solution to this?

yup. same thing happens here. You can report the bug.

Not sure but isnt this possible already with Start Orientation Picking.

you can hold down the key: ;
to temporary go into that mode. Then you can just click where you want to move the handle to.
Make sure you use a US Keyboard layout. otherwise the shortcut might not work.

With a wacom tablet there is a bug where a click does not register when there is movement between the mouse press and release event the click will not register.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum [en.wikipedia.org]

looks legit.

I rather would like to see the things mcnistor and PaQ WaK mentioned before seeing too many new half baked tools like polybevel 2.0 *cough*. Looking over some subd modelling sessions in modo/si could bring many ideas/needed features. One example would be inserting smooth/subd edge loops.

You just need to place the sop and connect it. There is a preset in the partition sop. Just click the small down arrow next to rule.

externaldragdrop.py works really fine but does anyone know how we can pass stuff from a pypanel so it can be used in externaldragdrop.py script?

Edit:
I solved it with setting correct mimeData for example with option

I think transform SOPs are not intended for use with heightfields. Use the heightfield transform SOP instead.

peteski
If it’s winding the wrong way, is there a way to reverse that? Sort seemed to have no effect.
Also could it be bug? It seems like a pretty unpredictable result.

use Reverse SOP to shift your vertex by 2 units. However this only seems to work on isolated primitives as the Source Group does not seem to work in the Vertex: Shift mode. Might be a bug?



On a technical note, I am no expert but the direction is not the problem I think. Otherwise the primitives normal would be reversed/backfacing. As far as my fundamental 3d knowhow goes this works the same way for all 3d polygonal content. So the winding I always thought as where the Polygon starts and ends. The direction of that will determine which direction the normal of the polygon faces. (Thats why it matters which direction you draw a polygon when using curve sop or the stroke tools with closing the ends etc.) The vertex numbering (Not Point Numbers!) will always change when doing a reverse of polygons or shifting the vertex's with the reverse sop. I think you can display vertex numbers in houdini so you can visualize it for yourself. Hope this helps.

You can also check in other 3d Application and see when creating polygons clockwise vs counter clockwise.

edited to make clear I mean vertex numbers not point numbers

The only thing i could think of is holding down “A” and click and drag your mouse in the network view where you want to reposition the node. That will kind of work even if it wasnt intended for that purpose. So its not exactly what you ask for but I think it helps with your issue.

cpb
4x panels, lower left is usually output or shaders.

nice color theme! Do you share it? :3

More of these should be included in the download color theme option in houdini.

Simplest method giving random rotation would be adding an Attribute Randomize SOP

Attribute Name: orient
Dimensions: 4 (vector4)

Save the Money on the Quadro!
Instead, like rob mentioned get a GeForce GTX. It is much better if you are on a budget.

Here its well explained the difference between quadro and geforce cards:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10532978/difference-between-nvidia-quadro-and-geforce-cards [stackoverflow.com]


The Threadripper is a great CPU but its single core performance is not that good.