{"id":1078,"date":"2026-02-16T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:08:08","slug":"archived-post-by-toadstorm-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/02\/16\/archived-post-by-toadstorm-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Archived post by toadstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p class=\"\">am i stupid? why is `gl_wireframe` somehow nowhere visible in the render properties shown in an Edit Properties LOP?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">i&#8217;ve seen it done this way, i know i&#8217;ve done it myself in the past, but it&#8217;s like impossible to find in this mess of parameters. also, *why is it so fucking hard to show curves in the viewport without thickness*? why do i have to dig through this insane menu to do this?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">i even tried adding the property as-is myself having memorized the name and it doesn&#8217;t fuckin work!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">okay so after some digging, apparently this property has *never* been exposed by any menu and can&#8217;t be assigned at all unless you do it manually. so if you want guide curves in solaris, and you don&#8217;t want them rendered as big obnoxious ribbons, you have to use an Edit Properties LOP, manually drag an integer property from the USD Proprties list, and name it `primvars:houdini:gl_wireframe`, OR you have to do it via a wrangle: &#8220;` usd_addprimvar(0, <a href=\"mailto:s@primpath\">s@primpath<\/a>, &#8220;houdini:gl_wireframe&#8221;, &#8220;bool&#8221;); usd_setprimvar(0, <a href=\"mailto:s@primpath\">s@primpath<\/a>, &#8220;houdini:gl_wireframe&#8221;, 1); &#8220;`<br \/>\nbrilliant UX<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">i find it really hard to believe this hasn&#8217;t been an issue for any other solaris users before. are guide curves really not used by anyone?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>am i stupid? why is `gl_wireframe` somehow nowhere visible in the render properties shown in an Edit Properties LOP? i&#8217;ve seen it done this way, i know i&#8217;ve done it myself in the past, but it&#8217;s like impossible to find in this mess of parameters. also, *why is it so fucking hard to show curves &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/02\/16\/archived-post-by-toadstorm-35\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archived post by toadstorm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}