Copy Stamp timeshift

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Hi,

I am getting some problem with offsetting leaf animation while copy stamping. Does anyone know how to offset leaf animation with copy stamp?

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Manish Sharma
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I'm pretty certain the way you offset animations is with Chops, not with copy stamping.
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Hey Manish,

the best way to offset “copy to points” (copy stamp is legacy) would be to write the animation to disc and define a value for each point that determines the frame that should be loaded. then use a “for each” loop to copy to each point.


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A simpler way might be to bake your animation to disk and load it back in as a Packed Disk Sequence via the File SOP; then afterwards you can just set the “index” primitive intrinsic to whatever you want via the “setprimintrinsic” VEX function. For example, if you had an animated sequence running from frames 1-30 and you wanted to randomly offset them:

int rand_offset = fit01(rand(@ptnum), 0, 29);
setprimintrinsic(0, "index", @ptnum, rand_offset, "add");
MOPs (Motion Operators for Houdini): http://www.motionoperators.com [www.motionoperators.com]
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Hey toadstorm,

thanks for this insight! the only thing I have to correct is that it has to be a float value for index changes (not a int) to work.

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