mestela
Don't wire them together, thats trying to turn your geometry into a skeleton, not what you want!

Follow the guide here:

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/character/kinefx/skeletons.html [www.sidefx.com]

Ahhh…That makes perfect sense…derp.


Perhaps this bit in the local docs is a bit misleading in that case…

Thanks for your help.

Hi Houdini hive mind, Can anyone help me with this error?

My most anticipated feature of 18.5 was KineFX but i'm stumbling at the very first step - very frustrating…



I've tried on Houdini Indie (Steam) and Houdini FX (Education) and get the same result on both…

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Many thanks…

Quick attempt before lunch…

HOULY is doing a great job of making me realise just how little Houdini I actually know!

Day 02 - Wind…

Thanks Seelanv,

That helped me chase down the problem - I've replaced File nodes with exposed Object Merge nodes and it works great.

I've also replaced my old fashioned copy-stamping with the new fancy for-each method and it just feels much slicker.

Thanks again for you help, much appreciated.

Regards

Richard.

Hi Seelanv,

Thanks for getting back to me - please find attached some pics of a testScatterer asset I made. My plan is to create an extensible system where the user can plug-in gameObjects (as many or few as required). I'm not sure I've set it up in the most efficient / best way

Houdini [imgur.com]



a ‘picker’ attribute is stamped onto a switch node to randomly select an obj

However in Engine no geo appears and an error reported…

Unity [imgur.com]

If this is not the most efficient way to do it - please advise and I'll do my research and update.

Many thanks for your help.

Hi all,

I'm building a curve based building builder (user draws a curve and a building magically appears)

However, some of the HDA geometry exists outside of the .hiplc and is brought into the HDA via File nodes (a variety of windows, doors, roof props etc all as .bgeo files)

Unity doesn't seem to like this workflow and refuses to load in the extra geometry, and breaks the asset in Unity.

Can someone advise on the correct workflow for including externally referenced geometry and bringing it in as part of a single HDA.

Thank you - Unity Engine is very very cool, I'm having a lot of fun exploring the possibilities.

Richard.

Sorry to resurrect a dead post,

However, i just wanted to mention that my latest character rig, created and animated in Houdini Indie 15 imported into Unity 5 with no major issues!

This is great news for me and my little indie game dev pipeline!

Big thanks to the devs for working their magic, much appreciated!

I would now definitely recommend character rigging in Houdini for Unity 5.

Rick

Hi all,

Just a follow up on this topic,

I've just managed to complete a new custom bone rig in Houdini Indie 15 and it imports into unity fine using the default .fbx export setting.

All deforms and animations seem to import fine into Unity5, however my old problematic files still won't work.

Might be worth testing a new rig?

Rick.

Hi All,

I was doing some character rigging in Houdini Indie 15, and it seems i'm unable to snap to nulls using viewport transform. Is this a bug or a feature?

Is there some checkbox i'm missing? I've tried all the different flavours of snapping and nothing seems to work. As a work around i've been copy/pasting the transform values from nulls - is this the preferred workflow to viewport snapping?

Also, I've found that the middle mouse select of bones is not working in the Edit Capture weights tool, I have to use the little diamond widget on the bone, which is not as precise as i'd like. Again, am I missing something?

Anyone else having similar issues?

Hi Jorch,

Did you resolve this issue?

I had a very similar problem last year but never managed to get past it.

I ended up re-rigging / animating in Maya, which was a pain as every single asset for my game was from Houdini.

I've not attempted any character rigging in Houdini since, which is a shame because Houdini is now my primary tool for game dev.

For info, my thread;

https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=35318&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 [sidefx.com]

Did you have any luck?

Rick.

Fantastic!

Thanks eetu - i'll have a play around with these,

Much appreciated

Hey Houdini heroes,

In an (probably stupid) attempt at unifying my gamedev pipeline is it possible to simulate the Standard Shader (Unity 5) in Houdini SHOPs?

In Houdini I'm not sure how the parameters for Roughness (reflectivity) and Metallic (metal-ness) translate. The roughness parm on the Mantra Shader doesn't seem to work as expected and as to what ‘Metallic’ actually means is anyone's guess?!

Ideally i'd like to create a shader that is roughly comparable with the basic set-up in Substance Designer in PBR mode

All my tests in Houdini with PBR and an Env light seem to look poor in comparison to the real time PBR in Unity 5 / Substance Designer.

Could any shading guru give me any pointers as to where I should be looking (Blogs / videos etc) or which parms in SHOPs I should be investigating?

Many thanks,

Rick.

Hey guys,

I'm a hobbyist game developer currently using Houdini Indie as my main pipeline tool for 3d content. Modelling in Houdini (and using Engine for Unity) is an absolute dream - creating variations of models is a breeze and makes for very rich scenes in Unity (and I imagine UE4).

However, the bones system implemented by Houdini doesn't translate very well to game engines - Unity uses a joint based system for character rigs (like Maya) whereas Houdini uses a bone based system. The two system seem, at first glance, very similar however I ran into show stopping issues that forced me to rig and animate in Max. I've not tested the latest builds but apparently there has been some changes to the .fbx export code. I'm currently exploring my rigging options - don't want to leave Houdini - its too good.

Also, you may want to check out GaTu - they have some great Houdini > Unity pipeline videos

http://www.gametutor.com/live/site/home/ [gametutor.com]

Also, feel free to read my Houdini rigging nightmare in its full gory details here…

https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=35318 [sidefx.com]

This is great news - thanks for the update stjohn.

I'm downloading the latest build as we speak - i'll test and report back.

Rigging in Max was making me very sad…

Thanks sjohn - something like that would never had occurred to me in a million years and it seems like a good learning exercise too - any excuse to jump into CHOPs!

Thanks!