Houdini | Use OBJ Material Tags

This video shares a tip for using OBJ Material Tags to color geometry in Houdini.

[christianvolkner]

there´s actually an easier way. Create a color Node -> under "Group" hit the arrow to select -> in Selection Mode hit 9 to go into the connected geometry selection mode -> change the dropdown tab from Select to "Name Attribute" -> on the pop window right hit the gear icon -> under the dropdown go down to attributes -> select shop materialpath to interactively select materials or other primitves.

There´s a modeler plugin for Houdini where this option is a single click process. But it might be possible to do it somehow in normal Houdini as well :-)