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Node flags

Node flags - Houdini Tutorial

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Node flags

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- [Presenter] In this video we're going to take a look at node flags and what flags are, are the little areas on the left and the right side of each node that allow us to change some things about the functionality or the display of that node. So, let's go into this training room sub-network. I'm going to click on this, hit the I key to go inside, and here we have all of our bits of geometry. You can see I've made these yellow and these have the geometry object icon on them. So, what we're going to do is, if we click on the right little blue strip here, that is the display flag, so I can toggle on or off a piece of geometry based on the, sort of state of that flag. Now, this can or cannot affect the render depending on how the renderer is set up. But by default, it does, and so whatever is visible will render and whatever is not won't, but we can also override that. Okay, and so we have another flag on the left part of our nodes and this is the select flag. So, if I go into my view…

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