All language subtitles for [English] Houdini Intro - 01 - Basic Interface

To begin with lets understand a few of the
basics of working with Houdini's User Interface

and how to go about customizing it
Now

This interface layout that you see here is
the default that loads up with Houdini

If you go under the windows menu
Here under desktop

This interface is called the Build Desktop
By selecting this you should get the same desktop

layout
For any reason if its not similar

go ahead and choose reload current desktop
and that should reset it to defaults

Now that you have reset it to the default
desktop, your color scheme might be slightly

different
for this under edit menu

you can choose color settings
and choose the color scheme you are most comfortable

with
I'm going to leave it at Houdini dark as my

preference.
Now for customizing the user interface

one of the easiest ways is that
most of the menu items and shelf items

Have this small notch with this arrow on them
Clicking on which toggles these elements on

& off
which gets you more screen real estate.

Apart from that most of Houdini's interface
is divided into separate Panes

with additional tabs within them.
We can go ahead and switch over to any tab

by just clicking on them.
Or also go to the New Pane Tab

And select any Tab you actually want to create.
So you can actually create any number of tabs

on the same panel
and have the same tab displayed in multiple

sections also
Now you can also go ahead and split a Pane

into multiple sections
and add additional elements.

To do this go to the top right-hand corner
of any Pane

Click on this and select the split option
you want to use

Either split it vertically or horizontally
After you've split this

You can again go back to
The New Pane Tab element

and select which ever panel you want to actually
create there.

So like this you can go ahead re-edit the entire
Houdini User Interface.

Once you've gone ahead and created any number
of panels and added tabs into them

there are additional controls that Houdini
provides you

As you can see there is a notch here which
lets you control the size of the different

interface elements
But also by just clicking on this notch once

it toggles the position of the different elements
It exchanges them

Also, this notch has arrows pointing in different
directions in the same place

by clicking on which you can collapse the
entire panel itself

Also, once a panel is collapsed
By clicking on the middle notch you can still

exchange the panel
So, even though you are in the same interface

you can toggle different elements at the same
time.

Now lets understand how to go about navigating
in the Houdini Interface.

For this I will go reset my build desktop
first.

There are several parts of the Houdini interface
where we can navigate around.

The two most important portions I will concentrate
on are the

Scene view: which is a 3D Viewport, and the
Node-graph/Network-view which is a 2D Viewport

So, in the scene view to navigate around
we need to have the camera tool selected.

Once it is we can use the Left click to Orbit
around in the view

Right click to Dolly the camera in and out
and middle click to Pan around.

But these options are only available when
the camera tool is active.

Lets say we have any other tool active.
In such a case all of the mouse shortcuts

are now different.
To get back to the camera tool

we can use the space-bar and this temporarily
activates the camera tool

and we still have all of the same options

For those of you who are coming in from Maya
or any other package which uses Alt-navigation.

We can go under Edit-menu > Preferences > 3D-Viewports.
Here enable "Use Alt Key for View Controls",

enables Alt Key navigation. Just like Space
bar

So you can seamlessly integrate Houdini after
coming in from a different package (kind of).

Now lets us look at how to navigate around
in the network view.

Because Network-view is a simple 2D viewport,
we only have option to Pan around and Zoom

in and out
For Panning we use the same shortcut as in

the 3D view, which is the middle click.
And Right click lets us Zoom in & out, pretty

much anywhere in the entire Network-View.

So that brings us to the end of this particular
video

In here we learnt the basics of User Interface
& Navigation

In the Next video Tutorial, I'll show you
have to create objects and manipulate them.

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