ronald van vemden

It’s a random thing that’s hard to replicate and disappears when restarting Houdini and reloading the scene. I’m still on 550, but I experienced these and many other viewport issues in previous versions as well.

On top of what I mentioned, sometimes the "edit>tweak" stops working, sometimes I suddenly can’t select geo etc.

I have not reported this "invisible geo" issue as far as I can remember. Curious if anyone else noticed this, maybe i’ll report.

I often have strange issues with the top left view. Strangely enough it's always this view, I've never experienced these bugs in other views.

Sometimes objects are not showing up, no matter what I do. Or the view keeps focusing ( space+f ) on the wrong coordinates when I have something selected.

Even Resetting the Viewport or reloading the scene doesn't help, it seems the only way to fix this is to restart Houdini.

I attached a screencap where the issue is clearly visible, even when I add a new tube, it doesn't show up in the topleft view.

With all the other issues, especially regarding the viewport it's becoming extremely frustrating to work in Houdini.

Has anyone else noticed this and is there s secret fix ?

H 20.5.550

Don't know the first thing about scripting or VEX, but I needed to fix the symmetry of a character without destroying UV's or other attributes.

I've been looking for a tool to fix symmetry based on a symmetry map like in Softimage XSI since it's very easy to screw up symmetry in Houdini because it's not a global setting but has to be toggled on for every single SOP every time a new one is created.

But it seems the only way to fix symmetry in Houdini is to mirror the mesh and thus destroying a lot of attributes like UV's, envelopes and such.

So with a little help from ChatGPT I created a HDA to fix symmetry in X, Y or Z axis without affecting the UV's or other attributes by creating a "Symmetry map" from the original mesh, and to my big surprise it actually works !

So if anyone needs to fix symmetry like this, I attached the HDA.

Besides the non-symmetrical mesh it needs the original mesh that hasn't been edited to create a "symmetry map".