From the course: Houdini Essential Training

What you need to know - Houdini Tutorial

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What you need to know

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- [Narrator] Before we dive into the course, I just want to go over one little detail that has to do with the kind of state of the different exercise files. Because Houdini has a lot of different viewport modes, and some of this stuff gets saved with the scenes and some of it has to do with sort of how your particular copy of Houdini is set up, and so what I really want to discuss is the fact that some of these when you open them, they may look a little bit different than we have here, but no worries. It's really easy to get back to the different states. We're going to cover the way we switch between things over the course, but just even before we dive in, I'm just going to show you some examples. Like for here, I could have this scene, I could just switch to a different mode and then all of a sudden, the scene would look totally different and I can switch to another mode and all the sudden, the scene would look totally different. And we have different modes for lighting and different modes for shading quality. So I just want to point this out, because maybe you've been fiddling with some things or maybe just there's some different settings between my setup and your setup, and so I just want to make sure that you don't get too concerned about any of that, because viewport stuff is just always changing, and it might even be a little bit different because I've got a certain graphics card and OpenGeo driver here, you have a different one there. Sometime things can display it slightly differently because of that, and I just want to point it out. All the nuts and bolts, all the core stuff there is working, and when we're in smooth wire shaded mode here, and when we're in normal lighting view, everything should look pretty good. Once we get into some more advanced modes or other wire framing modes, then things might look a little bit different. But anyway, that's that. Just pointing out the fact that there are any issues between just the viewing quality of your exercise files and then comparing them to the videos we have here, just know that probably you can just change a few settings in the viewport and everything will match back up.

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