Eric Ebling

ah cool, the way on the right in your example file is the way I ended up doing it. But the way on the left is easier. I will use that style from now on. It is a bit confusing coming from 13+ years of working in maya. I hope to pick up houdini sooner than later.!

Thanks for the example.

E.

Ah ok cool, thanks for the info.

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oh ok, so what would the point be of overriding since the attribute made with the overridden name doesn't seem to be directly accessible.? The tutorial I watched overrode the “area” name to “prim_area”. Is this just so you can make names you prefer or are more easily recognized and then if you want to access the data in it, you need to do the attribCreate thing I mentioned before.? It seems like an extra step since if I just leave the name to the default of “area” then I can directly access this data by way of $AREA….

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