In Houdini 19, BasisCurves are shaded as ribbon geometry as opposed to lines.

Couple of questions:
- is there any way to disable this? In most cases we'd prefer the previous shading behavior.
- is there any way to set the default ribbon width (currently seems to be 1m)? .001 would probably be a better default.
- is there a fast way to set widths for all points? Or make it a constant instead of a per point array?


We have tons of hairstyles published without width, as it's set later procedurally, but we can no longer view them in the viewport as they either crash Houdini or look like a ball of thick ribbons.

It's impractically slow to add widths in a sopModify just to view the hairstyles.

In the attached image, left is Solaris viewport, right is what we'd like them to look like.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Grant Miller
- is there any way to disable this?

you can uncheck Display Options/Geometry/Shade Open Curves

Thanks Tomas! Hiding under wireframe, so obvious 🤦‍♂️

The # of questions I come across here where you're the one answering is truly incredible.

Screenshot for others who may find this thread, also random crowd person cheering appropriately :P