OK!! I am trying to get Real Flow meshes into Houdini, And yes i have downloaded the plugins from next limit, but isthere any instructions on how, where to put the buggers, NO. I am pulling my hair out with this.Help and you can have my wife, Please, Bm-bm

JM (I-550)

Humble, Stupid, lost, a Lightwave refugee clinging to the side!! :twisted: :x :evil: :!:

How 'bout some more info, like: are you on Windows, Mac or Linux? 32bit or 64bit?

Hi

I'm on mac intel 8core, running 32bit i think, maybe not though. It is the "Mach-o-lib plug ins from real flow. I am learing both apps at the same time so my brain is melting.

Thanks :shock:

No problem. If you're on Mac you're running 64bit.

Unfortunately I haven't worked on the Mac version so I won't be able to help, maybe someone else will chime in.

Thanks anyway.

JM

i-550
Thanks anyway.

JM

Put the .dylib files (SOP_RF_Import.dylib & SOP_RF_Export.dylib) into your $HOME/houdini9.5/dso directory. That's it.


Mark

If you use mesh for realflow, try to use obj insted of BIN file
in export tab change from BIN to OBJ
and you will have a OBJ Seqeuance for RF

nosferatu037
If you use mesh for realflow, try to use obj insted of BIN file
in export tab change from BIN to OBJ
and you will have a OBJ Seqeuance for RF

If you do that, you lose a lot of useful attributes from Real Flow that can be used in Houdini (not to mention the size of the OBJ files are much larger). The particle and mesh importers for Houdini are stable, (the SD file format still has 2 lingering bugs that are to be fixed next) so you shouldn't have any problems getting the data back into Houdini.


Mark

Thnak you Mark

You saved my bacon. I am in bed now but will do first thing in the morning. I will reply again and tell you how it went. Again, Thanks so much!!!!! :!:

i-550, i was just on the realflow site, and i do not see any macintosh RF to houdini plugins listed. win, redhat, and something else… FP i think. anyway, i did go to sourceforge and DL from there, but the code appears to want to compile for win.

anyway, where did you get macintosh reaflow to houdini plugins? i'd love to try them out.

cheers!

macpro 4core intel 2.6ghz, 8gb ram, ati 3870

H10 and realflow 4.38

You can get them from the author:

http://digitalcinemaarts.com/dev/real_flow/index.html [digitalcinemaarts.com]

But will have to wait a bit for H10 ….


Mark

H10 versions available now.



Mark