Is it just me or does everyone find it quite annoying there are no bezier interpolation types on the ramps? Even simple Ease-in/Ease-out options would be handy… its very hard to get a nice logarithmic style curve out of the ramps (in float mode that is).

I am a relatively new user so i might be missing something here.

Nope, you're absolutely right. It'd be awesome to have. However, in those cases you can create a curve with keyframes on a spare parm, and use `chf(channel, frame)` to do a curve lookup based on some value instead.

chf() has saved the day more often than I care to count

Rob

Could you post an example Solitude? I didn't quite get it

Yup, here ya go, a super simple example that uses a custom curve from 0-100 where I look up the value of pscale based on `rand($PT) * 100` giving me a random frame from 0-100 for each point to look up that frame on the curve to get my final value for pscale. So you get a lot of small spheres, but only a handful of bigger ones based on my curve. Also try $BBX to get an idea of how it works as well.

Thanks a bunch man. Always nice with new tricks

Great tip Solitude!

Looks like I will be swearing at Houdini much less thanks to this.

It would still be amazing to have tangent handles on ramp parameters or a compact way of embedding the channel editor in the parameter interface. I can imagine which one is easier to do.