Does anyone know if there are any plans to create a Houdini Engine plug-in for Modo, official or otherwise?
The only other discussions on the subject I've found are fairly ancient, and I had honestly expected something to have been done by this point.
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ndicksonThe problem is though, it's only listed in there. As far as I could tell, the documentation gave me no reason to believe it did anything else.
Ah, okay, that's under the “Render nodes” heading, so it applies to ROP nodes, things like the Mantra ROP or Geometry ROP, usually either in /out or in a ROP Network, (though you can also create a ROP Output Driver or ROP Alembic Output node in SOPs). I'm not 100% sure, but in that context,$N
might be the number of the frame relative to the sequence being rendered/output, as opposed to the absolute frame number, which is probably still$F
or$FF
.
Do you know of a better source for the various Houdini expressions? I could really use one.
Edited by Grimwolf - July 17, 2017 17:41:47
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Thank you, that does work. So does $N retrieve the number of the entity in this context? The documentation only says that it retrieves the “current frame”, which I assumed to be the keyframe.
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This should be absurdly easy, but the normal functions don't seem to be working.
I'm using a delete node to try deleting all but the last couple of points in a line. The very first thing I need to do is retrieve the number of points there are, and I'm already stuck. Based on the tutorials I've gone over, and all the searching I've done online, I should be able to just type something like $NPT into the pattern, but it's saying this isn't an actual function. At least not one that works in this context. In fact, any particular letter only seems to have a couple options available. For example, $N can only be N, NEXT_OT or NFRAMES.
Is this all deprecated information I've been finding online? What would be the normal approach to retrieving this?
I'm using a delete node to try deleting all but the last couple of points in a line. The very first thing I need to do is retrieve the number of points there are, and I'm already stuck. Based on the tutorials I've gone over, and all the searching I've done online, I should be able to just type something like $NPT into the pattern, but it's saying this isn't an actual function. At least not one that works in this context. In fact, any particular letter only seems to have a couple options available. For example, $N can only be N, NEXT_OT or NFRAMES.
Is this all deprecated information I've been finding online? What would be the normal approach to retrieving this?
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