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Cheers,
Peter B
Constantin X
Hello SideFX,
And thank you Jordi for your help. I have a very specific question, not a general one. I work a lot with MOCAP(i generate the files with my own system). I bring the clips inside XSI, apply them to my model and then i clean the curves as needed. I rely heavily on 3 tools: simplify curves command, smooth curves command and animation layers. For animation layers i think there is the blend node inside chops(there is othe way?) But for the life of me i can't find simplify curves and smooth curves. At list there is something like this, or equivalent inside Houdini? I don't want the program to automatically smooth the curves(using mcbiovision) because i don't want to apply it for certain moves(knee bone curves for example). So i need to manually clean the curves myself inside Houdini. And one more thing: can the good folks at SideFX include something like 'match translation/transfromations inside Houdini? And also apply this to pivot? Thanks in advance for the help.
Thank you,
Constantin
pbowmar
Jordi, thanks very much for this. As a longtime Houdini user I often lose sight of some of the basics, and as a Houdini teacher, your perspective really helps me avoid making assumptions about how things should work
Cheers,
Peter B
jordibares
Now, the bad news;
If you want to apply destructive curve operations like in Softimage I am afraid Houdini does not provide that functionality and here is where you can choose, do it as I explained, procedurally friendly, or (you guessed) you can run a script to do the job like in XSI. This is when you may want to write code.
jordibares
Now, the bad news;
If you want to apply destructive curve operations like in Softimage I am afraid Houdini does not provide that functionality and here is where you can choose, do it as I explained, procedurally friendly, or (you guessed) you can run a script to do the job like in XSI. This is when you may want to write code.
pbowmarjordibares
Now, the bad news;
If you want to apply destructive curve operations like in Softimage I am afraid Houdini does not provide that functionality and here is where you can choose, do it as I explained, procedurally friendly, or (you guessed) you can run a script to do the job like in XSI. This is when you may want to write code.
Jordi, curious what this means since in CHOPs you can filter/resample then go in and manually edit your curves, or push them back onto objects as ‘regular’ keyframes etc. I am likely not understanding what you want to do though, or how Softimage does it.
Cheers,
Peter B