Product suggestion - drag & drop images into houdini as ref

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Hi,

May I place product suggestions in this forum? (is this the most appropriate way to make suggestions?)


I wish to drag and drop many images into Houdini as reference images rather than pressing shift + i and selecting 1 and repeating this process so many times.

I'm pushing to do everything in Houdini and dumping as many APPs and DCCs as possible, including pure ref. I like to make a geo node called "image_ref" and dumping ref in there. Can we please just do a drag drop or, if thats not possible, can we choose multiple images ?

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Usual way is to submit an RFE (request for enhancement) at https://www.sidefx.com/bugs/submit/ [www.sidefx.com] or send an email to support@sidefx.com
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I would go as far as asking SideFX to implement drag-and-drop anything. I'd love to simply drag-and-drop FBX and ABC filed directing into the OBJ context, or drag-and-drop EXR's and TIFF's directly into the MAT context as textures.
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as long as you can also disable/extend it... thats the beauty of how it is now, you can infinitely extend it, and its a beautiful thing. I have so many options at this point in odtools for this kinda stuff, that I wouldnt want to miss.
Edited by oliver7 - Jan. 10, 2022 21:45:59
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It's a bit off-topic, but I really wonder how you're going to make Houdini a PureRef replacement.

For example, I can make an image plane that's unlit and forced shaded, via Visualize SOP. However, how could I keep it visible when I'm working on the other parts of the network? Even if I have the template flag on, it will still be grayed out. I know it's not a big deal, but it's not what people who use PureRef would expect.

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Thanks so much Matt
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Also, to the comment about replacing pure ref.

- I already have done so using the above-mentioned workflow, and it's good enough
- I don't need to ask my workplace for software installations
- Pure ref is esoteric (for me)
- Simply after drag and drop features


I will also include the above-mentioned suggestions to have drag and drop extended to file formats.

Sorry for my late reply as well, I'm not used to this forum and thought I would get a notice.

All the best.
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with ODTools, you can drop any image in and decide whether its a reference image, bg image, a quad, trace or whichever...
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