Unable to evaluate expression - basic if condition

[babbel]

Hello everyone,

 

I get this expression error but I can't figure why.

Can someone please tell what i'm doing wrong ? Or maybe it's not possible to do that in this field ?

if(ch("../depth")<5){ch("../depth")*4)+1}else{ch("../depth")*3)+1}

 

Thank you,

 

Baptiste

[babbel]

I found the solution, it's because Houdini's expression has a kind of strange -if syntax-. "if (condition, then, else)"

[f1480187]

There is parentheses mismatch in the original expression, which will break any code.

If you want to use classic C-like if (cond) {statement} else {statement}, you need to open full editor via RMB menu and use multi-line expression (it is like a function body without function declaration itself):

{
    if (ch("../depth") < 5)
    {
        return ch("../depth") * 4 + 1;
    }
    else
    {
        return ch("../depth") * 3 + 1;
    }
}

What you used is if() expression function. I think it just wraps code above into something that is easier to use inside expressions. Although it evaluates both branches, I doubt if anyone ever had problems with it in practice.