Hello fellow SI transitioners. I stumbled on a cool demo video showing a giant pendulum contraption made with bowling balls, and thought it would be cool to recreate it in Houdini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMiuzyU1ag [youtube.com]

After working it out and stumbling a little bit, I felt like this might be good material for another tutorial video. So here's what I put together:

https://vimeo.com/106083811 [vimeo.com]

Apologies for the length (I have trouble explaining things quickly and to the point).

Houdini file attached if you're interested.

Nice Keith!

It's my third day trying to watch the whole video and I always end up getting too busy!

Really thanks , But I can't open your Houdini File :?

Hmmm, that's strange the file won't open for you. Perhaps it's something to do with older Houdini builds not recognizing the newish Indie .hiplc file format? I'm using 13.0.509. I've heard of some people having luck simply renaming the .hiplc file format to .hipnc. Might do the trick.

If anyone else has a problem, let me know and I'll see if I can save as a different file (if that's possible).

One thing, upon initially opening, you'll likely have to zoom way up as the scene units are in 1.0 = 1 meter

Thanks.

I don't think Apprentice is supposed to be able to open .hiplc files because Apprentice is free, Indie is not.

Yes , I try Apprentice version.
So we can open this file it in the Houdini FX or Indie very well , right ?

But my friend can't open it with Houdini FX , Maybe only newest versions support this format , because he using Houdini 13.0.401 !? :?