Viewing shadows and textures in the viewport

[Lukich]

Is it possible to view those things without rendering the scene?

[Dhiren Shah]

Hey Lukich.

There is an option called render region and left hand side of the viewport at the bottom.

U can basically render the selected region in the viewport itself.

Is this what you are looking for?

[Lukich]

No, that's rendering. I know maya can do it with depth map shadow. I was wondering if houdini can.

[stevenong]

You can always view textures in the viewport but not shadows.

Cheers!

steven

[Lukich]

Can you please remind me what to do to see the textures in the viewport? Right now, even if apply a uv map to the grid and throw a brick texture on it, it acquires a uniformly reddish color.

[edward]

If you put down a default grid and then apply the UVQuickShade tool from the shelf, does it work? You're not using a really old H9 build, right? Also, check the viewer display options and ensure that you have textures turned on.

[Lukich]

I notice that is I use a shader that has an image file in it. it shows perfectly. So i can see the butterfly. But if I'm using one of the materials shipped with Houdini, it doesn't work any more. It might be a build problem, my version is about a month old. I'll upgrade and see what happens. Thanks!

[edward]

Which material in particular? The texture map might not be hooked up to the opengl parameters.

[anim]

are you using a procedural texture?

i am afraid they don't show in the viewport

you can see only image textures