highlighting geometry in own asset/otl

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Hi,


I built an asset (python SOP) that performs some grouping (edge loop selection, to be exact.)

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On the image I'm doing the highlighting of the resulting group using an extra Group SOP, but I'd like to add this functionality to the Python SOP (well, the resulting asset doesn't have to remain a Python SOP).

I'm just looking for a way of doing similar geometry highlighting in my own asset as with (for example) the Group SOP. Is this possible?

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Imre Tuske
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Sadly such a thing is not possible.
Graham Thompson, Technical Artist @ Rockstar Games
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that doesn't sound very promising…
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I did a similar thing in my Select Edge Ring SOP. Like Graham said using a Group SOP is the only way. It's not that bad though as you can use the Group node to create a group with the same name so there would be no redundancy just for highlighting.

If the HDA is a single node, not a subnet, of course you can't do this.

Please submit an RFE for this. I did on Sep 30, 2012 (ID# 51359)
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