Wow, so cool! Thanks for that.

Always learning.

Jim

Hi,

So I have a geo node that has a box in it that I have animated.
What I'm wanting to do is have 6 nulls in the OBJ context align with and follow each of the sides of the box.

Is that even possible?

Thanks,

Jim

Well, I ended up just editing the Python script in the tool to set it up.

newnode.parm(“resx”).set(1920)
newnode.parm(“resy”).set(1080)

Probably not the best solution, but at least it sets the camera view to what I normally work in.

Hi,

I've searched all over for a way to set up the default camera resolution in Houdini to be 1080P or whatever I want.
I get tired of always having to go into the View settings and changing it up.

Is there a way to do this so the camera defaults to 1080P or some other user defined resolution?

Thanks,

Jim

Thanks so much. That was NOT obvious to me at all.
Wish SideFX would fix or document that somehow. Maybe they have.

Jim

Hi,

I'm creating a Python script that will set up a camera and a constraint.
In order to do that, I need to add in a constratinlookat node and set the output (orange) flag ON.

However, I can only find setDisplayFlag(True) for Python and nothing about the Output flag.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jim

Hey,

Just wondering if there were any Denver, CO based Houdini artists that might be interested in getting together once in a while?

I'm freelance and have been using Houdini for about 3 years now.

Would love to talk shop sometime…

Jim

Hi,

OK, this one is driving me nuts.
Using Houdini Indie 16.5x and I'll be happily tumbling around the viewport using my mouse and spacebar, and then, for no apparent reason, when I try to rotate around the object, and I press the spacebar and then move the mouse left or right, the viewport zooms INTO the object and doesn't keep the same zoom level as I had.

This only happens IF I move the mouse over the object. If I move the cursor in an empty area, it works as expected.

I'm sure I've hit some combination of keys to get this ‘setting’ to work as it is. If I restart, all is good.

This seems to only happen when I'm inside a GEO node, if I am at OBJ level, it works as expected.

What am I doing wrong?

NOTE: This issue is only present when I have a camera selected and ‘locked’ so I'm moving the camera view around. If I just use the normal viewport, it doesn't exhibit this issue/feature.

Thanks,

Jim

It would be helpful if you uploaded your .hip file so we can look at it.

I just got back to my laptop and figured out the issue. I'm using a CHOP to constrain a null to a circle that goes around the statue. A camera is the ‘child’ of the null. When the project started in Houdini, it was 24fps, but I changed it to 30fps per the client's request. However, the CHOP's Follow Path node's channel was set to 24fps so it was making up a frame and it was static and not moving, and therefore choppy. An easy fix, but an entire re-render.

I'm rendering out of Houdini at 30fps using Redshift.
I'm bringing the rendered frames into AE at 30fps and rendering out at 30fps in AE.

Not sure what else is going on other than missing motion blur?

Jim

Hi,

I've created this render for a client and they are complaining of stuttery video.

https://youtu.be/mgb07kM4Q0Q [youtu.be]

Not sure what to do about it. I tried using RSMB (Reelsmart Motion Blur) in AE and am now rendering out motion vectors to see if that method will help and give it some motion blur.

Not sure where to go from here, any ideas?

Thanks,

Jim

Hi,

I'm wanting to create a destruction/explosion similar to the scene of Asgard being destroyed: Asgard Destroyed [youtu.be]

I need to use Redshift and was thinking of using some kind of volumetric light, particles expanding rapidly with rock geo instanced onto them randomly.

I'm trying to figure out how to create the volumetric lighting inside the explosion.

We're going to do the last ‘wide’ shot too, and was wondering how I could make particles look like streams of light or if that's a good way to approach this.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

Jim

This has been filled. Thanks for your interest.

Hi,

I'm needing some help with a project that's due the end of this month, but I would need the final on this created in 2 weeks with a couple rounds of changes.

We are not going to be close-up on the terrain, so game level of detail is fine.

Also, this doesn't have to be ‘Hollywood Movie’ quality, but does need to look decent.

This is what we are after, but without the castles:

We'd want mountains on all sides, but with some valleys between them as we'll be panning the camera from the center 360. The lens flare can be added in After Effects.

We can get by without the clouds if that will kill the setup and render time.

I'm needing the mountains, plain, sky and lighting and this all needs to be rendered using Redshift.
You would be creating all the lights and textures using Redshift inside Houdini.

Please contact me if you are interested, I need to start on this over the weekend as I'm creating a destruction piece that will sit in the middle of the plain.

web-at-reelinspirations-dot-com

Jim

Hi,

I've been searching for a web site where I can purchase and download simple low-poly characters for use in crowd simulations inside Houdini.

Mixamo is a great resource for creating FBX walk cycles, but their choice of characters is limited.

Am I able to import Unity assets into Houdini?

Something like this: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/lowpoly-medieval-characters-59770 [assetstore.unity.com]

Thanks,

Jim

Hi,

Let me say up front that I hate Windows.
I'm a Mac user, but have a Windows machine as Houdini is more stable on Windows with nVidia drivers (for Octane and Redshift.)

Does anyone else have the issue of having Windows decide it's going to do an update in the middle of a render and simply restart.

How do you deal with it?

I want to eventually install Linux, but I also use Adobe and C4D and it's an issue there as well.

Any solutions offered would be appreciated.

Jim

This is pretty good. Some of it might not be 100% procedural, but there are a lot of procedural methods in here.

http://www.rohandalvi.net/advmodeling/ [www.rohandalvi.net]

Jim

Fracturing using boolean shatter is far superior in my opinion to voronoi. Sure, you will have some more work, but you are able to art direct your fractures.

What I drop a uvtexture on my fracturing grid(s).

The key is selecting Output Primitive Groups in the Boolean B inside A which gives you a group for the inside surfaces of your fracture.

You can also use a Facet SOP with post compute normals checked to help with creating normals.

I didn't have time to look into your project, but hopefully this will give you enough to go on.

Jim

Sure, what I'm doing there is creating a random number from 0 to 12. The ‘seed’ value changes with every ‘iteration’ of the for each loop as it loops through the points on your french fry. The fit01 takes the number returned from the rand() function and makes it a number from 0 to 12. The rand function will return a value from 0 to 1 in decimal.

If you don't use a different ‘seed’ value for the rand function, you'll end up with the same number (I think.)