Hi guys,
Sorry for the stupid question, but does Houdini have anything similar to Maya's “Export Selection” if you want to only export 1 objects out of many?
I tried doing a google search on this and not much comes up on “export selected Houdini”.
Regards
Export Selected in Houdini?
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Hi arctor,
Your solution turns out not to be so practical as first thought, as it does not export the object with it's edited scale and transforms.
SreckoM,
I've tried right click the object and look for some kind of “save” option, but in the list that pops up when you right click it, gives me no option to save it out. the closest thing I see in the list is something called “save to gallary”, your not refering to this one are you?
Your solution turns out not to be so practical as first thought, as it does not export the object with it's edited scale and transforms.
SreckoM,
I've tried right click the object and look for some kind of “save” option, but in the list that pops up when you right click it, gives me no option to save it out. the closest thing I see in the list is something called “save to gallary”, your not refering to this one are you?
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You need to be inside geometry node. Option is not on object level.
Here is the screenshot.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s234/sh/073d4172-88f8-4ac3-b65f-8909345dba17/f58796582d9b239e2173b6b8cf0fda9b [evernote.com]
Here is the screenshot.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s234/sh/073d4172-88f8-4ac3-b65f-8909345dba17/f58796582d9b239e2173b6b8cf0fda9b [evernote.com]
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Sometimes you want object transforms baked in to your saved geometry for quite a few various reasons.
The procedural way is to do the original request is the following:
- Viewport hit “S” and make your geometry primitive selection.
- Viewport Tab type Group and turn your selection in to a group (makes things re-usable and easy to see what you did 6 months from now).
- Append a Blast SOP and blow away everything but your group (supply group name from above and toggle “delete non-selected”).
- Append a ROP Output Driver SOP.
- On the ROP Output Driver there's an option called “Transform”. It defaults to None. Change this “Into World Space” and now your geometry is saved to disk with the object transform applied as you requested at the beginning.
Done.
The procedural way is to do the original request is the following:
- Viewport hit “S” and make your geometry primitive selection.
- Viewport Tab type Group and turn your selection in to a group (makes things re-usable and easy to see what you did 6 months from now).
- Append a Blast SOP and blow away everything but your group (supply group name from above and toggle “delete non-selected”).
- Append a ROP Output Driver SOP.
- On the ROP Output Driver there's an option called “Transform”. It defaults to None. Change this “Into World Space” and now your geometry is saved to disk with the object transform applied as you requested at the beginning.
Done.
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I had an old Groups To Disk SOP asset that was long on the tooth (pre-dates ForEach and is circa Houdini6.2). I re-worked it in to a more modern variant that should be quite straightforward to use.
Read the parameter tooltips as it gives you an idea as to how to set the parms for.
It takes any pre-defined primitive groups or a primitive selection (from the viewport if you wish) and when you press “Render” it writes the geometry out to disk in standard Houdini fashion.
I created a list of all the possible geometry export options as well including gzip variants. I left the ascii versions around in case you want to troll the geometry formats with a text editor if you so wish to learn how the formats are saved.
As for apprentice users, 'dunno how this will work but give it a whirl.
Read the parameter tooltips as it gives you an idea as to how to set the parms for.
It takes any pre-defined primitive groups or a primitive selection (from the viewport if you wish) and when you press “Render” it writes the geometry out to disk in standard Houdini fashion.
I created a list of all the possible geometry export options as well including gzip variants. I left the ascii versions around in case you want to troll the geometry formats with a text editor if you so wish to learn how the formats are saved.
As for apprentice users, 'dunno how this will work but give it a whirl.
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