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Thanks David! It helped me a bit. The pos abc does have points in it, you just need to have both shape and transform enabled and you will see the locator shapes positions. In your example you are using copy to points. I should have also added that I'm going to use Arnold so I need to use the instance node. Anyhow, thanks a bunch for that example! regards stefan

Hello! I hope someone here can help me understand how I can access packed alembic geo. I have 2 sets of alembic files. One which is a point cloud where the points have a attribute called "inst_obj" and the second alembic contains the geo which should be instanced to those points. I could use a single alembic for each geo, but it would be more handy if I could have the geo in a single alembic file. I just can't figure out how to access the attribute and instance out the corresponding geo. Does it make sense? (simple alembic files are attached) best regards stefan bblock_geo.abc bblock_pos.abc

Yes I did send a bug report to SideFX before posting here actually. Just wanted to hear if anyone else has the same issue, which it seems to be. thanks for the answer! regards stefan

So still on the viewport hunt The reason why these kind of basic questions comes from me now is that we are trying out Houdini as a generalist tool and hope that more Maya artists at work will start using it. So I'm testing a lot of things. This I've tested this ona bunch of computers (and also asked SideFX support) and lastly I get to my home computer which is a iMac (mid 2014) and they all show the same strange artefacts. As you can see in the attached viewport this happens when you have High Detailed Shadows turned on. So when (if) we are going to do animatics also in Houdini this could be a potential thing that would bother me and also my artists. Is anyone also getting this? It's standard plane and a area light. best regards stefan andersson Below, Screenshot at home with Apprentice 16.0.745

so strange, when I open yours and adjust it to what I tried it works... I've attached the file. Thanks for testing it! regards stefan odforce_viewport_color_stan.hip

Hello, I'm having some issues (Linux, Centos7.x) with viewing material colors in the viewport. The way I've assigned them are through groups primitives, but I can't see the colors in the viewport that the shaders has. I've tested with the constant shader, principal shader, etc. But it doesn't show any colors that the diffuse channel has. I'm sure it's a beginners problem, but I'm not sure what regards stefan

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We are quite a international bunch, so English is the language that is mostly spoken here at the office. No questions are dumb Sorry for the late reply regards stefan andersson

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