noob flip fluids quest

[Alexpdennis]

hello all! good morning

i am a noob thats been frantically trying to learn houdini and i hit a snag last night. My studio bought me a copy of the HD apprentice houdini, and ive been studying this tutorial about he waterfall:

which is filled with great and valuable information. but the part when he switches to the next tutorial:

he skips some stuff and i cant figure out how to put the simple volume texture on my POP object or solver. from the few weeks ive been playin with houdini i found that the textures go on Geo nodes. it also, says i should be able to just drag the texture on any particle, but i cant do it. Then i looked at his project file and hes writin the spray sim out to disk. i cant figure out quite how to do that either. i figured i could attach the ROP output driver to the gravity out within the spray sim DOP but it says i cant do it becase of the HD apprentice limitations or whatever when i middle mouse over ROP out put driver node. but i dont even know if thats what im supposed to do. or if there is a way for me to texture the spray sim particles without writing out to disk. any ways.. thanks so much in advance.

[crin]

You should be able to write out your spray sim in SOPs. If you've named everything like this video drop your rop output driver after the importdop in /obj/Spray_Geo. This is the same object that you should be texturing & rendering.

[Alexpdennis]

Hey thanks so much for the response. im so sorry, i pressumed that i was to make a geo node and with in it Dop I/O node and point it too something to import the particles? no matter what i seem to point that node too nothing works which makes me think its not the node im supposed to be using.