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COPs Hacks
COPs stands for Composite Operators, and this is the section of Houdini that allows you to read in, manipulate and write out images. This is a full-blown compositor, and while you might not use it for the most difficult live action composites, it’s excellent for creating and manipulating elements to be used in many situations. COPs is also the place where you bring in images to use in doing modeling, texture and bump mapping, and other non-compositing activities.
Follow that Node!
By default, COPs will display the node that has the display flag set – not too surprising. However, that can be annoying – you might not like choosing another node, then having to follow that up with a click on the display flag in order to see the ...
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