Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the yellow) ) This will
lock the node like a "freeze". Everything above is computed and "locked".

2017-02-20 22:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Cesar Duarte <paulocdua...@gmail.com>:

> Hey Pierre and Ed...
> I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP for now.
> There is a simple way to freeze modeling like XSI? Without the need of
> caching geometry, just freezing or collapse?
>
> Cheers.
>
> 2017-02-10 19:48 GMT-02:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>:
>
>> A few thoughts of mine.. hope you don’t mind poking at those suggestions…
>>
>> On 3 Feb 2017, at 20:11, Ed Schiffer <edschif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi Tim
>> I am just starting in Houdini as well and would be interested in a XSI
>> Shelf tools.
>>
>>
>> Good idea
>>
>> for these particular issues you mentioned, you could match the Translate,
>> Rotate, Scale and or Pivot using the icons on the right of these
>> parameters. very useful!
>>
>>
>> You have matching of transformations but may be I could put together a
>> few Softimage friendly ones too…
>>
>> and on the Modify shelft tab you have the Center Pivot button as well.
>>
>>
>> You may not want that, I rather suggest you install qLib and you will
>> have a bunch of presets installed on normal translation nodes that allow
>> you to do the centroid quickly, also placing in the center of the world, on
>> the floor, etc...
>>
>> also, under the Pre-Transform dropdown at the top of the Transforms tab,
>> you have Clean Transforms/Translate/Rotate/Scale with for my
>> understanding are basic as the Freeze in XSI. when you Extract these you
>> get your global transforms and when you Reset them you'd be setting the
>> Pre-Transforms back to zero…
>>
>>
>> The pretransforms are like XSI neutral pose
>>
>> Regarding Freeze… that is one of the things you may not want to inherit
>> in Houdini. Although at first made sense to me once I got a bit more under
>> the bonnet it was obvious that you can do it without having to rely on
>> freezing. Either by saving to disk, storing the resulting network on the
>> scene or other means.
>>
>>
>> hope that makes sense, I thought it to be very straightforward. Houdini
>> is very rewarding to learn, hope you enjoy.
>>
>>
>> :-)
>> jb
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> On 3 February 2017 at 15:12, Tim Bolland <tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, I'm currently taking a good look at Houdini as an application
>>> moving forward and I'm wondering if anyone has or uses any custom scripts
>>> to mimic some of the more used functions of Softimage. I'm thinking of
>>> things such as "Match All Transforms" and "Move Center to Vertices".
>>> General workflow commands you realise you miss when you jump into new
>>> software, I can imagine a script savvy guy out there must have whipped
>>> up custom shelf as soon as the program opened <OutlookEmoji-😉.png>.
>>> Any information would be hugely appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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