The point of Substance Designer is to create tillable textures, you don't really need painter to use it, and having an equivalent to Designer right inside of Houdini, instead of going back and forth, seems to be more powerful, so I am not sure what the problem is here!

Are the Hive vids still going to be posted this week?
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

JalexM
Are the Hive vids still going to be posted this week?
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I think the site is pretty clear on when they’ll be posted.

JalexM
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I don't see why it wouldn't work in other DCCs as long as you can structure the data in the same way you should be able to invoke the same ONNX model on it

I use COPs a lot even with the current bugs the thing I miss the most is a decent rotoshape vector node, please tell me that I am going to have that on copernicus!🙏

mzigaib
I use COPs a lot even with the current bugs the thing I miss the most is a decent rotoshape vector node, please tell me that I am going to have that on copernicus!🙏

I wish the same as well. But chances are less it seems. In the keynote they showed shapes were built using sdfs. I think it will be something like hacking curves sop to make rotoshape?. But this is just my guess, who knows what is coming.

LukeP

JalexM
Are the Hive vids still going to be posted this week?
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I think the site is pretty clear on when they’ll be posted.

Well, they originally said it'll be posted this week in this thread, but I see the updated date now on the Hive page.

tamte

JalexM
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I don't see why it wouldn't work in other DCCs as long as you can structure the data in the same way you should be able to invoke the same ONNX model on it

I don't see how it could be structured the same in Maya nor Blender?

JalexM

tamte

JalexM
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I don't see why it wouldn't work in other DCCs as long as you can structure the data in the same way you should be able to invoke the same ONNX model on it

I don't see how it could be structured the same in Maya nor Blender?

ah, now I understand you were probably asking about skinning weights, in that case no, ML deformer workflow as is in 20 and probably 20.5 requires live inference of ONNX model, it's not possible to bake it to set of skinning weights for linear or DQ joint deformer

In my original answer I assumed you were talking about weights and biases encoded in ONNX model

tamte

JalexM

tamte

JalexM
Also is the ML deformer only for animations in Houdini or can the weights work in other DCCs

I don't see why it wouldn't work in other DCCs as long as you can structure the data in the same way you should be able to invoke the same ONNX model on it

I don't see how it could be structured the same in Maya nor Blender?

ah, now I understand you were probably asking about skinning weights, in that case no, ML deformer workflow as is in 20 and probably 20.5 requires live inference of ONNX model, it's not possible to bake it to set of skinning weights for linear or DQ joint deformer

In my original answer I assumed you were talking about weights and biases encoded in ONNX model

Yeah, gotcha. I was wondering if I missed some features in Maya or Blender lol.

Btw it seems that the HIVE videos are being uploaded!

raincole
Btw it seems that the HIVE videos are being uploaded!

They've been on Vimeo for 5 days now, usually they upload on Vimeo a few days before they upload on YouTube!

Does anyone know when 20.5 will be released? They said July but not the date...or did I miss that?

Sygnum
Does anyone know when 20.5 will be released? They said July but not the date...or did I miss that?

they said middle july soo next week

Enhanced Python API for richer customization of viewport interaction

Does that mean we'll be able to select in the Houdini viewport using python ?