Slow103 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Hello all, I am new to Houdini Fx, as to this forum. While spitting through all tutorials, i keep on running at a problem. Maybe its a small problem for you guys, but I cannot fix this. The problem is, that I cannot box select. For example, as I was doing a tutorial about animating in spring SOP's I had to select the points that weren't attached to the ground and make it a group. So I had it in front view, and dragged a box over the points, but nothing is selected. I tried various key combinations, like dragging with a shift or ctrl. But nothing seems to work. I than selected all by pressing a but I had to unselect the points manually with shift and clicking them one by one. Now the points are on a grid, so it was in the x and in the y direction, so that is a whole lotta work. I tried it with several projects but the box selection is not working. Can someone tell me what is wrong? Is there a different approach or am I just doing it wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 If you have an AMD graphics card, you need at least build 383 of 12.5. This has a workaround for a AMD driver bug that affected selection. I would recommend the latest production build, 12.5.469. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangi Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Hi Dive inside the node ? mangi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow103 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 Hello Mangi, ty for the upload of the picture, but this I did , so that wasn't it. However Mark, I do have an AMD card, so that will be the problem. I have the Houdini FX 12.5.376 apprentice version installed so it is not the 469 version you adviced. Do you know how I get this updated? Or is the learning apprentice limited to what they offer to work with. I downloaded this version in late April 2013. I am not able to check right now for the sidefx site appears to be down, but if there is a newer version can I just install over it? Thank you both for replying. E.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 You should be able to download from the daily builds, the current latest version is 12.5.470. Sidefx.com --> Download/Daily Builds It will install in a new folder, so you can always run any version you install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 You can download builds from here: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_download&Itemid=208 These will work with Apprentice licensing. If you can't get through to the site, a temporary workaround would be to toggle to Visible-only area select mode (Shift+V, or in the Select tool menu on the left toolbar). This will box select only points you can see, but it beats deselecting one-by-one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow103 Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 Ty Marty and Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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