villain
(you ROG link is pointing the HP notebook too)
although i have to postpone buying, i am really looking at XMG. they build their customized notebooks around Clevo motherboards and chassis. they are in Europe (Leipzig, Germany), if you are elsewhere in the world you may want to look at some similar companies. i think most/ all(?) of these companies build customised notebooks around Clevo: Eluktronics, Eurocom, Obsidian, Sager, XMG (Schenker).

dpernuit
Hi,

Houdini Asset Actors will always have an overhead cost compared to a regular Actors w/ static meshes components, as they also store all the relevant information used for to interface a HDA with the Houdini Engine (parameters etc.. ).

We generally always recommend to bake out HDAs to native UE4 actors once they are considered “final” and no tinkering in the editor is required..

If your hda has no parameter/input exposed then there is very little point in using it in the editor, since the whole idea is to be able to edit and modify it in the unreal viewport.

The only “optimisation” the plugin would have over Houdini's FBX export would be that if you're using packed primitives/instancing, the plugin will give you instanced static meshes out of the box while FBX wont…

sungho1114
sorry for the late respond.

Thank you for the explanation about the unreal material system. I want to use string to add the material, but it doesn't allow me to add multiple material on the mesh at the same time. For mine, the mesh has more than three shop_materialpath attribute that has to be used in ue4, but only one of them can be used if I use string. Is there anyway I can populate the string parameter based on attribute value like add three string if there are three material attributes?

mkps
You can use regular expressions to build it. So if you have an integer parameter called “userVersion”, you can put this expression in a string parameter and then middle mouse the parameter to see it evaluated. (You might have to fix the drive colon thing if it shows up as a smiley face… )

`"Z:/assets/buildings/building" + padzero(3, ch("userVersion")) + "/building" + padzero(3, ch("userVersion")) + "_roof.bgeo.sc"`

That can be made more modular as well if you want to break parts of the expression up and reference multiple parameters. ie: have one parameter where it specifies the base folder path. Then ideally you can on different file nodes just append the model name like “roof” or “roofTrim” or whatever.

mkps
How about having a folder structure that's consistent for multiple building meshes, then you can have either a slider for the user to pick which building number they want, or assign a random building mesh per box?

ie: you would have a folder like this:
Zassets/buildings/building001/building001_roof.bgeo.sc
Zassets/buildings/building001/building001_roofTrim.bgeo.sc
Zassets/buildings/building001/building001_roofTrimCap.bgeo.sc
etc…

Zassets/buildings/building002/building002_roof.bgeo.sc
Zassets/buildings/building002/building002_roofTrim.bgeo.sc
Zassets/buildings/building002/building002_roofTrimCap.bgeo.sc
etc…

And in your hda you would construct the file path filling in which building number is to be used. Then you don't need the user to input any explicit paths.

BabaJ
Here's what I mean about swapping UVs in the carve sop. Even with this way - If you want to keep the same point order you have to add a sort node after.

BabaJ
The inherent UV of the primitive is determined by the order in which vertices were created for the primitives.

If your consistent in the direction of creating the primitives, you'll get the same direction results with the carve sop.

Otherwise you'll have to use the reverse sop, or settle in reversing using U for V and V for U on the carve sop.

Andr
how do you create the curves?