Kenji Endo

Hey Brian - I believe Sublayer LOP should be doing a "deep reload" of the recursive layers used by the top level layer in the Sublayer LOP. If it's not, that might be a bug case to log.

If you want to reload a layer, recursively or not, in Python - the LOPs recommended way is hou.lop.reloadLayer() on https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/hou/lop.html. [www.sidefx.com] You can call either hou.lop.reloadLayer(<path>) hou.lop.reloadLayer(<path>, recursive=True), which will reload all used layers by that top level layer.

- Kenji

Sorry, photo didn't attach:

I think Brian is referring to this type of coloring. There's orange, dark orange, and purple. I also haven't seen official docs on this, but my understanding of the colors are:

Purple = muted layer
Orange = there's an opinion in this layer for your currently selected prim in the Scene Graph Tree
Dark orange = there's an opinion in one of the child layers under me (click the plus) for the selected prim in the SGT