I would please like to see a Houdini presentation or a series like this:
Ryan Summers 50 in 50 - Production tips from the trenches Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tzI-jb7mk8 [youtube.com]

Kind of a work smarter series.

I recently fell over this tip:
Use $OS as group name in the group sop and its the same as the node object name - that's kind of a huge time saver, and I only recently found out about it. So I'm wondering that there a probably hundreds of these kinds of tips which could help people working smarter.

Kind regards, Jan

This book is a bit old now but probably lots of useful tricks that still apply today.

https://www.amazon.com/Houdini-Spot-Time-Saving-Tips-Shortcuts/dp/0240808622 [amazon.com]

Hi thanks it's a great book, are there any parts I should avoid in order not to lean obsolete parts/workflow? :-)

By the way is it possible to lock a pane to “obj type”, but still let it follow selection? If i pin it down in order to no have it follow shop or rop it i have to unlock it to follow gl viewport selections in order to automatically jump into sop nodes. I use different panes for obj/sop, shop and rop (out) in order to work quickly and not having to shift between context in a single window.

janmansilver
https://www.amazon.com/Houdini-Spot-Time-Saving-Tips-Shortcuts/dp/0240808622 [amazon.com]

This free Intro to a pyro course has several solid tips that apply to setting up any DOPs network:

https://www.cgcircuit.com/course/applied-houdini—dynamics-i [cgcircuit.com]

Def worth a watch,
Kevin