Hey everyone,
I am proud to present my HDA for this challenge:
Linked Subnets
They are something I would have loved to use in some earlier productions. I extended the functionality of subnetworks which allows you to connect them together and share parameters and the contained nodes.
This greatly reduces the need to copy paste setups within the same scene. After updating one Linked Subnet you are able to copy your changes to other Linked Subnets with the push of a button.
Linked Subnets can be compared to HDAs but you can even use them for very specific node trees that only make sense in one scene without cluttering up your HDA folders.
They are especially useful when you have to create a similar setup for many inputs while keeping it art-directable. Also, you are able to easily add or remove nodes and parameters when it is required while also propagating those changes through your whole node tree.




Features:

1. Copy Nodes and Parameters
   
2. Keep individual parameter changes per instance
   
3. Art-Directable
   
4. Keep individual parameter changes per instance
   
5. Python 2 and 3 support
   

Enjoy

Thanks Ziboo

As a small update. I've ironed out some minor bugs and was working on a test scene.
In this case I took some spheres and converted them into apples with controls over their color and variation name for scattering.

I also used the linked subnets to layout the cases including their highres, proxies and source points for an rbd sim.

This is rendered using Redshift and the scene will be part of my submission if someone wants to take a look

Hey,

I've updated the HDA with a couple of things.

• The Parameters are now layed out more nicely.
  
• Also added a new button to remove spare parameters from the HDA.
  
• The copying of parameters has been reworked completely to now allow for more options (e.g. only overriding default values to keep individual changes that are kept even after pushing new changes).
  
• Overall cleanup of the back-end code.
  
• Added F1 docs.
  

Now I am only missing a couple of things

• Testing on a Python 2 build
  
• Demo Scene and Render
  
• Demo Video
  

Hey,

this is my work in progress for "Linked Subnets"
It is a solution for a problem that I get sometimes during a production.
There are cases where I want update an existing setup and add / update the same setup at different locations.
There are possible solutions using HDAs but most of the time the setups are very specific to the current shot and I don't want to create HDAs just for that.
Compiling and invoking is another solution but many important nodes are not compilable.
And finally the option to manually copy the nodes or write specific python scripts to recreate the nodes in certain locations.
Linked subnets are supposed to make this a lot easier by allowing to copy the nodes and parameters to other linked subnet instances.

Linked Subnets are generated with a random UUID. Any nodes with the same UUID are connected and from anyone of them you are able to push the contents and parameters to the other linked subnets.

There are options on a node to ignore incoming updates and also on the pushing node you are able to change what is copied to the other nodes.

My first and probably only entry this year.
Showing what beauty a bit of dirt and sun can bring

This really was a lot of fun and I've learnt a lot.

Time has been flying this month. Can't believe it's already over.
I have learnt a lot. Congrats also to the other artists that produced some awesome work in a really short time.

That's some rough weather.
Lucky I've brought an umbrella.

Day 29

Using noises to shade an object to make noise

Some jellyfish

Barely had time for this one.
So I just shaded a sphere

U1: Munich Candidplatz

Already day 24

Penrose waterway

Day 22: Aurora Borealis

Inside a skyscraper

I built a vex based solver where the planets attract each other

Turning real elevation data into a wireframe model