Yeah, I can totally see how it can be useful - and by being useful ... I think it highlights the shortcomings of the Houdini UX itself, no doubt. CAD programs are pretty damn good at that sort of stuff - starting a line is just hitting the L key followed directly by arguments, quite similarly to coding. It's interesting…
So I found an awesome piece of software today called VoiceMacro. I've been using it with Houdini to instantly drop down nodes just by saying their name, and I'm already working way faster. I'm sure I could do the same thing in substance designer, but I haven't got around to it yet. Basically, I'm finding it to be useful…
"[...] then mouse over Line and select it" Seems like Houdini probably has a clunky clunky UX if its search/autocomplete cannot do this smoothly ! It's pretty awful that it requires you to use the mouse after doing keyboard-based search/autocomplete. This matches with the experience I've had of the program back when I…