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Understanding attributes

Understanding attributes - Houdini Tutorial

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Understanding attributes

- Attributes are another fundamental, important concept in Houdini. You can think of these like metadata for geometry components, or really anything across the spectrum of Houdini, you see these everywhere. This will be a good way to introduce them to you. There are some basic ones that you are familiar with, with other things, things like normals would be an attribute, or UVs would be an attribute, or text color would be an attribute. But the cool thing about Houdini, is we can make any attributes we want, to do anything we want, even if at the end we don't export those out to our renderer or for exporting geometry to go somewhere else. But, even along the way as we're creating stuff, we can add a lot of custom data that allows for a lot of flexibility and some pretty cool effects. I'm going to show you how to add, both some standard attributes in Houdini, as well as show you a node that allows you to create custom ones. Let me close some of these panes up, and what we're gonna do…

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