Im testing Houdini's fur tools against Maya and our inhouse stuff.

So far its been fun however I am having some problems with combing symmetry.

It doesn't seem to reflect properly. How does the reflection work? Is there a relationship to the uv's?

ps. What is the “rotational” option do?

Houdini 10.0.249.3
openSUSE 11.1

More specifically If I comb in the z direction it works on both sides… however if I comb in the x direction the fur combs almost like its trying to go the same way in world space instead of going opposite on the other side.

It seems that the comb is controlled by a vector attrib called “furdirection”. If you use an attrib mirror you can mirror it correctly.

This is simple enough which brings the question about the comb tool. Is this a bug with the comb tool or is there something I'm missing?

i have found this too.

Wren
More specifically If I comb in the z direction it works on both sides… however if I comb in the x direction the fur combs almost like its trying to go the same way in world space instead of going opposite on the other side.

A bug in the Comb SOP was responsible for this behaviour. It was fixed in Houdini 10.0.463.

Good to know! Thanks for the info….

Latest daily build is ….Houdini 10.0.461 :roll:

When will the 10.0.463. build be available?

10.0.463 is the build that should be available tomorrow

Sweet! It is fixed……

I forgot how wonderful it is to deal with the wonderful people of sidefx….. fixed a problem in a day. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.