https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/sidefx-labs-substance-plugin/ [www.sidefx.com]
would it be easy to make a cops network that could process an image sequence through a substance sbar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOgC8lFE6tI [www.youtube.com]

this is pretty cool
quad mesh boolean type blending

I had this same issue
I ended up trying to render with lower res and it stopped crashing
then i slowly kept uping the resolution bake and i got it up to 4k

why does this issue happen in indie? does it stop with say, houdini core?

how do i get the paint to work in painted quad density with attribpaint?
seems to ignore my mask area?

hey no worries
I was expecting no response and just kept trying to dig around
my solution was to just learn more basic houdini and modeling in houdini so i didn't have to bring it to maya hah

but I appreciate the reply!
okay I'll try that out next time thanks for the insight!

cool thanks! now I just have to figure out how to load in textures to this thing

cool thanks!

Well they're basically just locators with their own orient space, and they're the only things you can use with skinning. So in that sense they're unique bone like objects.

Seems interesting with Houdini bones, reminds me of old xsi objects which have their own neutral pose and anything could be a bone deformer for skinned objects.

How does one file an enhancement request?

Ah no worries,

My rig terminology stems from Maya mostly. But I'm slowly attempting to move to Houdini since Maya sucks hah. But it's still my main tool unfortunately.

Dembones Does both methods actually. It can either create bones with weights based on some number of bones specified, or it can use an existing pre-weighted fbx. Which makes it pretty versatile compared to Houdini's current skinning converter

Nope, it doesn't need a rig at all. It just needs an alembic cache, and an fbx with preweighted bones on it,

The solver will translate and rotate the bones to match the cache and turn it into fbx animation

This allows you to use any tricks you want for the rig itself in any program, since all you need is cache

https://vimeo.com/138048608 [vimeo.com]
You can see at 1:20

The skinning converter implementation out of the base Houdini labs from my understanding doesn't have this capability

I asked in another post if the implemented skinning converter could train an existing fbx. I was told it couldn't do that. It could only use points to create its own set of weights. So with the existing one, you couldn't use it for real-time skeletal mesh animation clip creation. It's more for just one offs I think

I tried skinning converter on an alembic that failed. While dembones processed it pretty good.
Dembones also let's you feed in an fbx with bones preweighted to it and trains it to a cached animation. So you could use those as animation clips on an existing skeletal mesh in unreal or unity for example

https://www.ea.com/seed/news/open-source-dem-bones [www.ea.com]

So I noticed there was cool new plugin nodes for like some things like rizom Uv and quad remesher. Any chance there could be a node made from dembones from EA seed? It’s open source and the commands are made in dos, unless it’s easy to make and maybe I would try to make a node?

hi, I'm pretty new with all the houdini stuff still

can anyone tell me what would be the best nodes or steps to bake out a model textured with UDIMs to one tile?
not sure how one would approach this

does this lod creation work on objects already textured from UDIM to a single texture mesh?

and does the imposter bake the octahedral type imposters for unreal?

I'm pretty new to houdini
so I'm not very familiar with using the right terms to search for looking for answers

I have a houdini indie HDA with some file inputs that go into a chop network, go through a blend pose and then a file comes out


I can use it to process files in houdini itself
but I'm not sure how to package the HDA file so that I can link meshes in maya into the houdini asset
and then have a new mesh come out

any pointers would be appreciated, thanks!

i just tested AE live link with maya
Seems to work fine

thanks for the reply!

I've been investigating different cache ways to bring in animation into unreal so I've had an eye on animation textures for a while.
With python being added to unreal maybe it would allow for some more ways to bring stuff into the engine more efficiently.

I'm guessing that the precision of the texture is based on the bounding box of the animation? in the link here [vimeo.com] the precision was a bit off, is that fixed with 32bit textures?
does the scene size have some affect on it? say if the bounding box is large or the animation is for example 1,000,000 units away from world space 0?

you say that alembic can handle some certain issues with shadows better? do you have an example on how that would be compared to using just animation textures?


I've found that even since unreal has streaming alembic cache since 4.22, it's still experimental. so large cache files take a long time to load in. I've experienced some taking 2 hours to bring in, and i have no idea if it's crashed or not while it's coming in. so another thought i had was to maybe batch load an alembic animation in parts. or if vertex animation cache is precise, textures seem like a faster way to load in clips to a mesh.

thanks!

cool!
can is there a limit to how many frames this can spit out (due to texture size)? or how dense a mesh?
could this replace alembic cache in terms of efficiency?

I’ve seen that and tested it a few times, but it seemed like it made its own bones and weights, I wasn’t clear on how to feed it a pre-weighted bone rig from fbx

Still pretty awesome though