time issue in houdini

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sunhaohui: Member; 8 posts; Joined: March 2012; Offline

Nov. 14, 2012 9:24 p.m.

Hi there,
I have wrote a sop node which take current time(Not system time) as a parameter.In maya i use time1.outTime to animate my mesh. However I do not know how can i do this in houdini
Thanks!


pinkwerks: Member; 49 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

Nov. 15, 2012 9:28 a.m.

You don't connect to time like Maya, you need to use an expression.

'$FF' is the same as Maya's outTime.

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.1/expressions/_globals [sidefx.com]


goldfarb: Staff; 3455 posts; Joined: July 2005; Offline

Nov. 15, 2012 9:50 a.m.

$FF is floating point frame

try $T for time

Michael Goldfarb | www.odforce.net
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SideFX
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pinkwerks: Member; 49 posts; Joined: Jan. 2007; Offline

Nov. 15, 2012 10:08 a.m.

whoops my bad.

ops: I'm happy to say I haven't had to use maya in months and I'm already forgeting how it works.


liuxiaolin: Member; 53 posts; Joined: May 2010; Offline

Nov. 15, 2012 5:46 p.m.

SOP!
You can write it like this:
fpreal time = context.getTime(); :!:

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