Well, finally found a bit of time to add the latest chapter on animation regarding input devices.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter7_Animation_3_Devices.pdf

Also I have wrapped the chapter so I can move on to the next one about texturing.

Sorry is taking me long but I am very busy lately so it is harder than ever to find the time.

Enjoy

Sorry guys is taking me so long but I am so busy right now I had to cancel my trip to Cannes!!!

Hopefully this weekend I will find a gap to put together the texturing guide.

thanks for the patience.

Bad Jordi, bad!

You're doing all XSI users a huge favor man, so relax, it's no biggie when delays do happen. I mean could anyone ask for more?
I'm merely doing some pics/gifs and texts once a day or two and it's still time consuming, but you're doing a lot of stuff in those pdf.
Everything's great at whatever speed, just keep them coming!

Thanks for the patience. Just delivered today a job so hopefully will manage.

HA

Mananged to put together the first two guides for texturing!!!!

Please Halfdan, put the consolidated animation PDF on the main page as I will be deleting it very soon.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter8_texturing_1_Introduction.pdf
HoudiniGuides_Chapter8_texturing_2_Projections.pdf

Enjoy the weekend!
jb

jordibares
Please Halfdan, put the consolidated animation PDF on the main page as I will be deleting it very soon.

Done. Feel free to delete.

Edit: Direct link to the guides on the SideFX site [sidefx.com].

Again, really great guides! Even though I'm not a former Softimage XSI user, they're great reads, being able to learn a few terms and ideas along the way.

I don't know if you plan on covering this going forward as it sounds you may (it may just be common/conflicting terminology), for Cubic projection.

I believe the equivalent can be found on the UVUnwrap node. Unique in Softimage looks close to Strip Layout on the same node but I don't know what the Unique method is doing exactly.

Thanks so much… I think quite a few people are reading them even if they were not Softimage artists.. but hopefully is easy to review -terminolgy wise too-

Regarding the UVUnwrap, may be similar now that you mention, I will have a second look and update it as needed.

The Unique method is the same as the Faces method in Houdini where every face is given a UV without trying to connect them or anything.

Hope it helps

jb

Gyroscope
Again, really great guides! Even though I'm not a former Softimage XSI user, they're great reads, being able to learn a few terms and ideas along the way.

I don't know if you plan on covering this going forward as it sounds you may (it may just be common/conflicting terminology), for Cubic projection.

I believe the equivalent can be found on the UVUnwrap node. Unique in Softimage looks close to Strip Layout on the same node but I don't know what the Unique method is doing exactly.

I have updated the projection guide to take in account @Gyroscope comments and set it up so there is a table correlating tools and where to find them.

Hopefully it does make sense.

Please re-download the updated one.

hope it helps

The last chapter on Texturing is now uploaded.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter8_texturing_3_UVmanipulations.pdf

Enjoy and don't forget to ping me if you think I should add anything more.

halfdan

jordibares
Please Halfdan, put the consolidated animation PDF on the main page as I will be deleting it very soon.

Done. Feel free to delete.

Edit: Direct link to the guides on the SideFX site [sidefx.com].

Really? Where? I can only see chapters 1-7 for the past three days, no sign of Jordi's texturing chapters. What I miss?

As always, thanks for your dedication making these guides!

Stefan_Kubicek
Really? Where? I can only see chapters 1-7 for the past three days, no sign of Jordi's texturing chapters. What I miss?

We only put up completed chapters on that page. I.e. when Jordi consolidates the parts into a single document, we post it on our website.

The WIP chapters you can still find in Jordi's dropbox.

Correct, please read the README.TXT file in the dropbox account that has all the info and the direct link to the material already consolidated.

enjoy

By the way, I am uploading 2 files and have removed already the small chapters for texturing (sorry about that)

The connection is slow so there will be a bit of a down time…

Sorry in advance.

Consolidated Texturing chapter done, now moving into Rendering..

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter9_rendering_1_Introduction.pdf
HoudiniGuides_Chapter9_rendering_2_Overview.pdf


Enjoy

Halfdan, make sure you get the Chapter 8 online, i am already working on chapter 9.

thx
jb

Starting something like this is great, but really sticking to it is awesome.

Right now feels like a marathon… tough one… really tough.

Fortunately in a week I will be finished! then I am going on holidays and will prepare the VOPs chapter with a friend that very kindly has offered himself to help me out.

If everything goes to plan I will be out of the woods soon.

Thanks for the energy.. it does help

eetu
Starting something like this is great, but really sticking to it is awesome.

Finally prepared the Rendering Sampling guide, hopefully this helps understanding a bit how the sampling works and points you to some serious information on the subject.

Please let me know if I am missing something.

I will be jumping to motion blur in Houdini and the rendering section will be over… only compositing left and how interacts with the rest of the software!!!!

So happy to arrive here…

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter9_rendering_3_Sampling.pdf


Enjoy

Finally, the rendering chapter is now finished


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/22l2sx82m75buxj/H-0buUQAUP [dropbox.com]

HoudiniGuides_Chapter9_rendering_4_MotionBlur.pdf


and the consolidated one is now online.

@Halfdan, could you please put the consolidated chapter 8 and chapter 9 on the official page?

thanks so much.