Hi,
Paste/Unpaste Sop are disappeared in H14. They are deprecated?

Yes.

edward
Yes.

What's alternate method ?

I don't think there is. You can manually add them in the mean time. I think (but haven't checked) that they were just ophidden.

jerry7
What's alternate method ?

What were you intending to do with them?

ndickson

jerry7
What's alternate method ?

What were you intending to do with them?

I only have studied them, but never used them in real project.
I think most nodes deprecated by SESI have an better alternate, such as pop vop, pop network old etc. The deprecated node maybe means offical attitude about future.
Does this means nurbs modeling has became an old way and not be recommended these days ?

jerry7
Does this means nurbs modeling has became an old way and not be recommended these days ?

Well, some still do NURBS modelling, but pasted surfaces only exist in Houdini, and there isn't much info out there about how/when/if to use them, so they don't get used too much. There was some debate as to how many years it'd take for someone to notice that the Paste and Unpaste SOPs were hidden, but I guess you've shown that someone was using them in some capacity, even if it's not for a “real project”.

One motivation behind hiding Paste and Unpaste is that “Paste” sounds like an operation that one might want to do frequently, but it doesn't really do what anyone would expect from the name. A SOP with a similar name issue is the Bridge SOP, which sounds like it should be able to build a bridge between any two holes, but it actually only bridges two NURBS surfaces with a new NURBS surface.

Another motivation is that the geometry library has many special case codepaths for pasted surfaces. Pretty much anything that might move points and was written several years ago or before has a special case for pasted surfaces, but most newer code doesn't have the needed special cases, because there's relatively little knowledge around about how they're supposed to work, and it'd make the code much more complicated.