Attribute Transfer - Help

[tn2josh]

I'm following along a tutorial that uses Houdini 12. I'm on Houdini Indie 15.5. There are a few things that have changed (new check boxes and expression names) and what I'm doing isn't working as it appears to be in the tutorial. There is probably a few ways to do this... I'm open to suggestions, but I want to also understand what changed or what I might be doing wrong.

I have two sides of my node graph. One is a Grid plugged into a Mountain (to displace). The other side is a Sphere plugged into an attribute create which I've made an attribute called meshPush. Both sides are piped into an attributeTransfer. Finally at the bottom, there is a point node where I am supposed to add an expression to the Y position to displace my grid using the sphere. When I try to add my expression to position Y (@P.y + $MESHPUSH) that actual attribute isn't working and not actually showing up.

Hope this makes sense. Can someone take a look and let me know why this might not be working properly? Thanks in advance from a new Houdini user.

Learning_01.hipnc

[Sepu]

You need to check in the attribute create node "Local Variable" and then play with the "Blend with", etc in the attribute transfer. 

here is the setup working.

I would recommend moving away from local variables as much as you can since is being replace anyway. Attributes is the way to go. "@pushgrass" way more efficient and faster. And also from the Point Node.

Learning_02.hipnc

Edited September 27, 2016 by Sepu

[tn2josh]

thank you for your help! that fixed it perfectly.

do you mind explaining and/or uploading a version that shows how this would look without local variables?

[Sepu]

Attached is version using attributes.

There is a Attribute Wrangle and Attribute VOP doing the same thing, both are valid solutions, it just depends what you prefer.

Learning_03.hipnc