Hi,


In POPs, $LIFE is the normalized age 0 to 1, while $LIFESPAN is the total life and $AGE the absolute age.
in VOP POPs or VOP SOPs, the age attribute is still the absolute age but life is the total life and you have to divide to get the normalized age.
And underneath, the actual attribute is life, which is a float2 which is kind of a strange data type not used anywhere else, life is the absolute age while life is the lifespan.

I always find this a bit confusing, am I the only one ?
Must be worse for new users.
Wondering if this should be a RFE.

To be consistent I think there should be age/life/lifespan in vops as well, and maybe underneath one age attribute and one lifespan attribute to spare some space.

Cheers
Vincent

I agree. The whole attribute/variable mapping thing is extremely confusing and unintuitive to me and I really hope it's overhauled sometime in the future.

Sorry to be negative - for the most part Houdini is great and the sidefx folks have always been very helpful and knowledgable.

Eric