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Hi. I was looking for this thread in the new Houdini forum and of course didn't find it there. I know that Igor has posted a lot of good content about Houdini but it seems to be scattered all over the place. Would be nice if it could be consolidated somehow to the Houdini forum or maybe even just links in the Houdini forum to Igors past threads would help.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question, but already you can convert from one selection type to another by using Ctrl-Click or Shift-Click. For example, if you have a poly selection and Ctrl-Click the Edge Mode icon, the selection will convert to an edge selection and the modeling mode will change all at once. Shift-Click converts the selection more expansively.

It would be nice to be able to restrict any kind of selection using fields. For example, using a Select node set to "All" that selects all when no field is present, but selects only those inside or outside the field when a field is used.

It's not.

Ah you made my ears perk up for a moment there but seems you have to be an Enterprise subscriber which is twice the Octane only subscription.

I mean you need to take a more realistic view of things. 1) Nothing is ever going to exceed everyone's expectations. The UI will never satisfy everyone, all bugs will never be fixed, Native Redshift will increase the price, Scenenodes can never be complete and never so quickly, Maxon is doing nothing further with Xpresso (at best just hope they don't remove it), and a whole ton of features on your personal wishlist aren't going to suddenly get added any quicker than the development pace or focus of the last five years would indicate, and so on. Ditching backward compatibility is also not something Maxon will do. 2) Modules are not coming back and equally distributing the price amongst them is not how things work.

This poll is premised upon so many absurd and ridiculous assumptions I really don't know what to think.

R20 is the greatest of all time and also the last version given to us by the original team that brought us C4D.

Maybe then it's time to start believing your own eyes and act accordingly.

I use R20 and it's extremely stable even with Octane Render, but I've used all the more recent versions including R25 and haven't encountered any serious issues.

You asked for opinions, I gave you mine. I also don't needlessly update other software either, and that helps too.

And I would say if gaming is a concern then get a machine for that, but don't blame chasing gaming drivers for a few extra fps for newfound instability in your professional 3D software. Regardless of reasons constantly chasing drivers is a recipe for disaster and I would submit that 90% of instability problems people complain about come from that.

I never update Why on earth did you update to such a recent driver? I am using Nvidia driver 27.21.14.6611 from April 12, 2021 and it works fine with Redshift and everything else and I'm not updating it ever unless it stops working. Chasing the latest drivers and system updates just makes you a beta tester for those companies, and is a complete waste of time and sanity.

That right there is your problem. Why are you constantly downloading and upgrading drivers? That should only happen every few years and only when absolutely required. Same goes for OS updates.

It's hard to imagine anything being developed by Maxon directly from here out that isn't underpinned by scene nodes.

Magic 8 Ball says: Outlook is not good.

Isn't the line cut tool the easiest way to add a point to a polygon?

I have zero issue with anyone making this argument. Unless you're on subscription and it doesn't matter to you, R25 is clearly not a worthy investment for anyone considering a permanent license, as it's basically just an unfinished work in progress as will be everything that will follow until the new node core is fully operational and up to speed, which quite frankly there is no guarantee that will ever even happen because Maxon must stay in business long enough to cross that finish line, and at the earliest won't be for several more years.

Sorry, I meant the command manager is where you can find them.

You can find them in the coordinate manager and dock them as needed. I've always had the axis commands docked above my coordinates manager since R7 or so, and never even knew that the commands could be found in the axis menu.

Good to see the hysteria over the GUI change is continuing unabated here. Nevermind that one can easily recall the old layout and only the icons will have changed somewhat, Maxon has clearly ruined everything that was once good on this earth for all time and for time immemorial. RIP happiness.

Disabled XGroup? I would have never thought to even look there. 😄

There are three possibilities. You have a node not shown that is undefined, the xptesso tag associated with this xpresso is dissactivated, or xpessions are tuned off globally (an option today's users seem unaware of even existing but which I use all the time).