Bin Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Greetings people, when creating a digital asset and managing the type properties, is there a way to control the display flags? I mean, is it possible to create a button in the parameters to control certain inner nodes' flags to switch between bypass on/off as well as display? does that requires a whole bunch of scripting? or there is some simpler way to work around?(switch node? possibly?) thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 The nature of an asset means that all of those things are locked. You can modify nodes by making editable nodes to do as you want, but the proper method is to use switch nodes. Switches just need a simple channel reference where as dealing with the editable nodes and flags requires some sort of scripting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anim Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 use Switches to bypass SOPs but if you want to toggle display flag on Object Nodes then simply activate first checkbox on object's Render Tab, then simply link Display Parameter to your asset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bin Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) yea,thanks. Switch makes bypass simple enough, but the "display" parameter under Render tab is for geometry node, right? if I wanna control the display of the nodes inside the geometry node, then what can I do? Edited June 30, 2011 by Bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 You would use the switch, with the display flag set on it, to control which input node you want to display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 The only way to be able to change display flags is to have the hda unlocked. Making a node editable does not give it the possibility to become the display node, at least in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asnowcappedromance Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 it's possible to edit your display flag with python setDisplayFlag(True/False), but you have to make your parent node editable. Switches would be the nicer solution, but it can get ugly in chops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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