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Hey anim, hey noobini. Thanks for the reply (I know it's a little late)! I figured it out myself and yes, while writing the post on top I lagged the understanding that I had to use the set function to declare my vector. But still this became quite fruitful, as I learned today about the different meanings of ' ' and " " which I took for the same until today. - - - And answering my second question here (how to make use of the second input of the wrangle, instead of hardcoding the relativ reference): A simple approach is to take the boundingBoxCenter of the second input: vector inp_boxCenter = getbbox_center(1);

Answering my own question here. The Network created, when wrapping the nodes in a material builder, includes a property-node for Displacement Bounds. Unfortunately the channel reference for the the displacement bounds does not work on the fly. Solution: you can manually override the Display Bounds or update the reference.

I'm pretty new to Houdini, and try to understand how shaders work. Here is what I don't get. I have simple yet functioning setup in mat: If I select all the nodes above and collapse them into a material, meaning I create a material builder from them, the displacement is broken. See this screenshot: (left side desired outcome, right side broken material builder) Could somebody enlighten me, what is actually happening here? Looking forward to your answers. daily_20_056_material builder wtf.hipnc

I would like to get some basic understanding on how to use attributes, channels, references in vex properly. I'd like to understand in detail why this works: v@planepos = {`chs("../grid1/tx")`, `chs("../grid1/ty")`, `chs("../grid1/tz")`}; While this throws an error on the fourth line: f@planeTx = ch("../grid1/tx"); f@planeTy = ch("../grid1/ty"); f@planeTz = ch("../grid1/tz"); v@planepos = {@planeTx, @planeTy, @planeTz}; And could I avoid the relative references at all? I am aware that the attribute wrangle has some optional inputs, how could I make use of them to achieve the same result as my first example? something like: v@planepos = attrib(1, 'Center')