Stremik Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I can't seem to understand the deal with these two SOPs. POP Network and POP Merge. Particularly, in POP Network help, it says: "This SOP contains a POP network which it instantiates." I understand the meaning of a word "instant" but I don't understand in which context it is being used here. Is it as in: "instant connection between... etc" ? If so, than how different POP Network SOP is from POP Merge SOP? How does Network contained inside POP Network differ from one that exists inside /part contest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Hey Stremik Basically, a "POP Network" OP will create an entire ...er... pop network. You can dive down into it and put down pops as if you were in /part. And they don't differ at all except in their location. The pop merge will merge in a particle network from anywhere in houdini. Its kinda fun actually, I'm now creating subnet objects with SOPs and ROPs drectly inside it, inside the SOP network is a pop network and inside that is a chop network which drives a bunch of pop stuff. fun for me, not so much fun to whomever I pass it off to l8r Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 So I see. POP Network SOP probably exists for the reason of being able to save out an OTL that would contain all of the stuff it needs to work, inside it. Like if an SOP network has a geometry, driven by POPs or CHOPs. Other than that, these "Networks in Networks" only create more confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I think that is much of the point....IIRC the candle OTL tutorial does just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 In that case, was there really a need for an entire Operator? Why not just tie this functionality to a "lock"? You create an SOP network, create an POP network, in the SOP network lay down a POP Merge sop, lock it, and it saves the whole thing to an OTL along with the SOP and POP networks. And when someone installs this OTL, it will expand all parts of it in to their appropriate contests. SOPs to /obj and POPs to /part . All very clean and intuitive. Rather than examining SOP network in search of some "hidden" wormholes in to POPs dimention! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 You can't do that if you want to distribute it all as a single .OTL file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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