well, I hoped to get some information out of that promissing thread title,..well, anyway,..Im just starting with apprentice and havent done much reading yet..my bad, ok, but as this thread is allready here, we might as well turn it into something more informative for future lecturers.
I clicked this thread to see if I could get following information:
Q 1: Ive a libary of .obj, .3ds, .mb..normally turned into .off or.obj-
now, when I need x or y , I just go looking for it in my libary, instead of modelling every screw over and over again.
now, Im not talking the apprentice version, as I dont expect to be able to im/export objects…no learning versions out there can…
in an earlier post I read that this can be solved with the comandline in the sop…am I right here? havent tried it yet..should have , before double asking. but could I actually import geometry/meshes into the apprentce version that way?..wow
now, its not the first time , for me that I have decided to learn houdini, but the first time a couple of month ago lasted about an hour(incl. the unix install)
I closed the program and closed it for good (version6.1)..
all right while Im at it: whats a native houdini file?
ops: .hip is the apprentice versions file extention and the native/commercial one?
so, the answer is :
current frame $F in the file name. To bring in padded images with four decimal places, use $F4.
Example: Bring in a sequence of geos labelled my_geos_0001.obj to my_geos_0300.obj, you would type in the File SOP /<path_to_geos>/my_geos_$F4.0obj where <path_to_geos> would be the physical path to those files. Playing forward will fetch each geo in turn.
the learning curve is quite intimidating :roll: at first climpse, but hey…learning is allways good !
btw. expect more noob Qs from me soon!!
btw.II : before I google, are there any good books out for houdini-learning. I allways prefer printed guides