Tobias Steiner

SreckoM
No you do not.

Which is it?

malbrecht
Moin,

if I understand your problem correctly, then using the “Align Capture Pose” tool in the Rigging Shelf is what you are looking for. The general use for this is to (ignoring what you are doing to the geometry for a moment) rotate the bone the way you want it to be in correct “setup state”, then click on the “Align Capture Pose” tool. That will push the current rotation to the setup state and zero out the animation (pose) state.
If you have to correct the following / depending bones, just click on each of the bones while the align-capture-pose tool is still active, it will simply push the current state of each bone you click on into setup state, “auto-correcting” your pose.

I hope this helps! More in my “Full Houdini Rigging And Animation Course” later 2017

Marc

Artye
Just use what works - there are always a variety of ways to achieve the end result in Houdini.

grayOlorin
(again without looking at your file so pure speculation…!)

what about just rendering the mesh twice? one with displacement (which in essence gives you a hi res model), and another one with your target UVs, then turn on normal map in the bake texture ROP?

grayOlorin
Hey Morgan, without looking at your scene (I am at home now), have you tried the housing 15.5 version of the operator? It is MUCH easier to use…!

MartybNz
Yes - Houdini has a lot of the tools already, so if it works for you, no need for SD. On the other hand SD is very intuitive, has thumbnail preview on nodes and is a very active community, so there is a much better base to work from.

You can get the 30 day demo of SD and check it out, the beta SD Houdini plug-in will work.

DASD
Another advantage of SD is that it has plug-ins for stuff like Unreal 4. It also comes with a lot more generators.

robsdesign
I have a Substance Live subscription and rarely use Substance Designer but I do use Substance Painter, a lot.

Procedural can only go so far in my opinion but it depends on what textures you want to create and how you want to do it.

I use Zbrush for Modelling, Substance Painter for texturing and Houdini for everything else. So for me, Painter fills a gap for “manual” texturing that I couldn't do with Zbrush or Houdini.

I'm used to Photoshop so I can build textures (or substances) inside Painter using it's layers, masks, filters etc. I bought Live as I was expecting I would want to use Designer to build some substances but haven't felt the need so far.

Sorry, I know you didn't mention Painter but it works so well for me I feel it shouldn't be overlooked.

Guillaume
Ok, so I had a look at your scene the export doesn't work because some of the bones contributing to boneCapture are detected by the exporter as dummy bones.

Here's something I found in the exporter code.
// A bone is a dummy bone if:
// 1) It is a child of a null node
// 2) It has no children
// 3) It has a look-at node
// 4) Its look-at node is a null node which is a child of its parent null-node.
// 5) Its length is an expression.


The dummy bones are usually coming from an FBX file. If you import an fbx from Maya you'll get a null and a bone per maya joint.

I think what you have to do is make sure you do the houdini capture/deform by using the cregions on the nulls rather than on the dummy bones.