Good morning, this is the awesome support at SideFX
Available in the daily builds. yesterday Houdini 16.0.561 Added a hotkey to temporary toggle the state of the "Allow Dropping Nodes on Wires" preference while in the middle of dragging a node. On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 at 12:22, Andy Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > No problem Jonathan. > > A quick update to this following discussions with SideFX: > > 1) I don't recall if this was mentioned in the thread earlier, but they > mentioned that you can enable/disable the auto-connect on wires using > CTRL+8 or in the Network View menu under Tools-> Allow Dropping Nodes on > Wires. This doesn't work during a drag operation though, so I've gone back > and explained the desired workflow of having a modifier key to toggle the > behaviour during the dragging of nodes. I just thought I'd post this in > here now case it's useful to anyone in the mean time. > > 2) They pointed out that I was incorrect when I said earlier in this > thread there wasn't an equivalent view of Softimage's Explorer view where > you can see clean hierarchies of objects. You can do it in the Tree View. > You just need to enable the Object Filter (the first button in the Tree > View's tool bar). You can also right click on the Tree View toolbar, and > there are various other options in there which can be helpful for sorting > and grouping the objects in a tree structure. Definitely worth playing with > anyway. Sorry for the misinformation before! > > Cheers, > A > > > On 26/03/2017 13:55, Jonathan Moore wrote: > > Thanks Andy. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Andy Nicholas > *Sent:* 26 March 2017 00:37 > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: Random Thoughts about H. > > > > I also like Pauls idea of a modifier key to disable the auto connection on > demand. Definitely seems a worthwhile enhancement request. > > > > FYI, I’ve submitted an RFE to Side Effects and sent them the link to this > thread. > > > > A > > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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