Lewis Taylor
lewis_T
About Me
Lead FX Technical Director at DNEG
EXPERTISE
Technical Director
INDUSTRY
Film/TV
Houdini Skills
ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling | Environments | Digital Assets | Motion Editing | Hair & Fur | Cloth | Solaris | Mantra | Karma | Pyro FX | Fluids | Destruction FX | VEX
INTERMEDIATE
Character Rigging | Animation | Crowds | Muscles | PDG | Python
BEGINNER
Realtime FX
Availability
I am currently employed at DNEG
Recent Forum Posts
Can the Floating gnomon be scaled bigger? April 25, 2024, 5:25 p.m.
Is this seriously still not fixed? How hard is it to have a simple gnomon scaling option?
camera motion blur on volumes not working properly or at all April 10, 2024, 10:22 p.m.
Scene import is doing a brute force load and it's trying to use your existing OBJ level containers settings.
The objects coming in have a higher opinion than any render settings/geo settings so that is why you see no change.
You need to enable velocity blur on the OBJ level containers you need blur on, as if they were going to mantra.
Part of the reason that the whole notion of pulling in data via SOPs Vs writing out USD and loading properly
is just bad news in general. I get it's a quick way to render, but you pay a price in other areas.
So just to be clear, the Scene Import will pull stuff in with whatever values are in OBJ and they have stronger
opinions.
The objects coming in have a higher opinion than any render settings/geo settings so that is why you see no change.
You need to enable velocity blur on the OBJ level containers you need blur on, as if they were going to mantra.
Part of the reason that the whole notion of pulling in data via SOPs Vs writing out USD and loading properly
is just bad news in general. I get it's a quick way to render, but you pay a price in other areas.
So just to be clear, the Scene Import will pull stuff in with whatever values are in OBJ and they have stronger
opinions.
Moving VDBs SLOW!?!? April 10, 2024, 6:59 p.m.
animating at OBJ level is dangerous, if you plan to export this stuff the transforms at OBJ level
Are not accounted for. If you use a vol vis SOP and set viewport Max Vis Res to 64-128 you will still see
reasonable detail and have very good performance, without the dangers or animation limitations of OBJ level.
Are not accounted for. If you use a vol vis SOP and set viewport Max Vis Res to 64-128 you will still see
reasonable detail and have very good performance, without the dangers or animation limitations of OBJ level.