JoshuaMiller

Yea, that's what I figured.

I found that you can turn on the groups if you drill down far enough into the DOP network, but then it just broke everything farther down the chain.

Decided to just skip the step and continue on with the rest of the tut, it still works fie, the columns just do not have a unique texture for their “insides”.

Thanks for the reply!

I am having another issue with the columns tutorial, I have seen several people post about this, but nobody has uploaded a project file, and it does not appear anyone has solved the issue.

In step 5 of the rendering lesson (page 39), you are instructed to apply a material to the group “inside”, however the group “inside” does not exist. I am assuming it was created automatically in a previous version of Houdini.

Logically, there should be some parameter in the DOP network (fracture node maybe?) where you are able to either enable this group via checkbox, or create the group with a text field. I have looked at all the nodes, but do not know enough about Houdini to be able to track it down.

I have attached my file, if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

This thread helped me as well, I encountered the same problem.

Thanks!