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I want to remove particles with values bellow 0.5 at certain frame dynamically
you can dive inside of FLIP Solver SOP and add POP Wrangle for example
if( @Frame == 20 && f@mask < 0.5 ) removepoint( 0, @ptnum, 1 );
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Technical Discussion » Sink flip particles dymamically
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you can dive inside of FLIP Solver SOP and add POP Wrangle for example
Technical Discussion » Retiming fluid sim
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for retiming it's always better if your fluid sim doesn't use reseeding and outputs valid i@id
then the retiming can smoothly interpolate each particle's position based on the i@id across multiple frames
in such case your retimed particles should produce smooth motion
it's not common to retime after meshing as there is no clear information on the mesh that can be used to track how it needs to evolve towards neighboring frame geo, unlike on particles where you can easily match by i@id
then the retiming can smoothly interpolate each particle's position based on the i@id across multiple frames
in such case your retimed particles should produce smooth motion
it's not common to retime after meshing as there is no clear information on the mesh that can be used to track how it needs to evolve towards neighboring frame geo, unlike on particles where you can easily match by i@id
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月10日 15:32:17
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » How to prevent pyro sim from moving
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there are 2 factors you need to consider
1. v@P of the simulated volume is not {0,0,0}, but it evolves as the volume is resizing, so overwritingv @P is not gonna apply the correct position, you may want to add the position delta instead so v@P += point(...
2. the position offset you are adding has represent the real offset, in your case it seems like you are just taking centroid, but your sim is aligned to geo on the first frame, so unless that centroid position happens to be {0,0,0} on the first frame it will misalign
so better way would be to use Transform Pieces SOP and connect your pyro cache to first input, your animated centroid to second and centroid timeshifted to first sim frame to third
and it will apply transform delta between 3rd and 2nd input points
1. v@P of the simulated volume is not {0,0,0}, but it evolves as the volume is resizing, so overwritingv @P is not gonna apply the correct position, you may want to add the position delta instead so v@P += point(...
2. the position offset you are adding has represent the real offset, in your case it seems like you are just taking centroid, but your sim is aligned to geo on the first frame, so unless that centroid position happens to be {0,0,0} on the first frame it will misalign
so better way would be to use Transform Pieces SOP and connect your pyro cache to first input, your animated centroid to second and centroid timeshifted to first sim frame to third
and it will apply transform delta between 3rd and 2nd input points
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月10日 15:18:09
Houdini Lounge » How do you export/import/share recipes?
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it's common to get a lot of views and no answer, that just means that a lot of people are interested in an answer and hoping to find it in the thread
and asking the question you are one of them you should not be surprised
also those are not unique views, so it can be just 1 person refreshing 500 times
but regardless, you can watch this if you are interested in recipes
https://vimeo.com/970732930 [vimeo.com]
I haven't watched it in full, so not sure exact answer is there, but there you will find out that recipes are stored in .hda files
which means that even if Recipe Manager doesn't provide a way to export or version up individual recipes you can do it using Assets/Asset Manager using RMB/Duplicate
to overwrite a recipe just save another one for the target pattern under the same name to the same .hda file
or RMB/delete and save a new one
or RMB edit contents and do your edits there and save to override
to create a separate version you can technically use hda versioning by appending ::1.0 ::1.1 to namespace, but it looks like Houdini will currently treat them as separate Recipes instead of showing just one of them in the dropdown
But of course it depends on what you are trying to do with versioning as you can also target different asset versions with your recipes and those will be filtered per asset version
and asking the question you are one of them you should not be surprised
also those are not unique views, so it can be just 1 person refreshing 500 times
but regardless, you can watch this if you are interested in recipes
https://vimeo.com/970732930 [vimeo.com]
I haven't watched it in full, so not sure exact answer is there, but there you will find out that recipes are stored in .hda files
which means that even if Recipe Manager doesn't provide a way to export or version up individual recipes you can do it using Assets/Asset Manager using RMB/Duplicate
to overwrite a recipe just save another one for the target pattern under the same name to the same .hda file
or RMB/delete and save a new one
or RMB edit contents and do your edits there and save to override
to create a separate version you can technically use hda versioning by appending ::1.0 ::1.1 to namespace, but it looks like Houdini will currently treat them as separate Recipes instead of showing just one of them in the dropdown
But of course it depends on what you are trying to do with versioning as you can also target different asset versions with your recipes and those will be filtered per asset version
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Local Particle Rotation (VOPS Please)
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jaminationit really depends on how you are representing rotation on particle, whether, v@v and v@up, v@N and v@up, p@orient, or 3@transform
-I am looking for an easy way to rotate a particle locally in VOPS. In Softimage there is a compound called "Transform Local" that allows all local transforms.
in case of quaternion p@orient you can use Quaternion Multiply VOP, qmultiply() in VEX to rotate quaternion B by quaternion A, so B is the local one
in case of 3@transform, you can directly use Multiply VOP, * in VEX, to rotate matrix A by matrix B, in which case A is the local one
jaminationagain, just multiply your vector by matrix using Multiply VOP or by quaternion using Rotate By Quaternion VOP ( qrotate() in VEX )
- Softimage also has a "Rotate Vector" node that allows you to rotate a particle around a vector, which really just moves the particle to the rotated position but keeps the particles orientation. I am also wondering if Houdini has a simple solution for that.
Technical Discussion » Different mass to each RBD fractured pieces, How?
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Masoudyou are not sampling density from the correct points
Hello Tamte
Thank you for replying.
Please take a look at my file. I tried this codes in the density field:point("/obj/box1/SRC", $OBJ, "density", 0)
The spreadsheet indicates the density of each piece, which is useful, but the lower-density pieces always sink in the fluid!Image Not FoundImage Not Found
the geometry you are pointing to has 16 points so both of your objects will sample density of 1000 which you can see in the Geometry Spreadsheet
so you either create geo with just 2 points and set density accordingly or just check Create Packed Primitives on your assemble
which will pack your objects but still promote our density attribute, that way
Fractured RBD will still be able to use correct geo based on name and the point() expression will correctly sample point based on $OBJ variable as there are exactly the same amount of points
EDIT: just to explain further as it may seem confusing
feeding Packed geometry to RBD Fractured Object DOP doesn't mean you get Packed RBD, just that the geo fed thee was packed, and RBD Fractured Object will still use it to create individual DOP objects for old RBD solver, packing in SOPs just helps representing each object as a single point and therefore allows having attributes that can be then sampled using point() expression based on $OBJ variable
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月9日 11:30:54
Technical Discussion » Different mass to each RBD fractured pieces, How?
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MasoudThis is not correct
- Fractured RBDs are more suitable when you need individual control over each fractured piece or if the number of fractured objects is relatively small and you need to manage them individually for specific behaviors.
packed RBD is much easier to manage since you have control over every RBD's properties as points of packed prims
However the main reason people use Old RBD solver for mutual interaction with FLIP is that it correctly uses feedback data and its stable, for some reason the Bullet implementation hasn't been working with feedback from other solvers like FLIP so that would be the only reason to not use it in your case
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月9日 11:14:38
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Motion Capture Data Camera
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I can also only speculate based on my understanding but It's not just the precision of the device, it's precision of the overall alignment with the scene
So even if the device itself gives you precise motion you still need to align it to 3D representation of the scene, whether it's lidar or gaussian splat or whatever you end up having
I dont know what type of motion sensors you are talking about, but for example tracking and accumulating just motion delta will give you motion relative to the start alignment at best and of course with the danger of losing accuracy as it accumulates over time
So you still need to either calibrate at least the start alignment to the 3d scene or of course every frame, either during capture with some external sensors or post capture, which is exactly what most matchmove software do
So in theory yes, if you live in an ideal world and can record all necessary data (motion, alignment, 3d scene representation) precisely it would probably give you perfect alignment, but in real world it's probably much easier to compute best fit alignment per frame and get visually as perfect representation of the camera motion within the imperfect 3d scene representation than having perfect relative motion that doesn't align to anything
You can probably always combine all the information you have, like sensor data, in tracking to get to the result easier especially for difficult to track shots, but then it may be a question of whether its worth capturing and syncing it if you'd still need to use image based alignment and match move techniques anyway
But again,just my limited understanding of the issues
So even if the device itself gives you precise motion you still need to align it to 3D representation of the scene, whether it's lidar or gaussian splat or whatever you end up having
I dont know what type of motion sensors you are talking about, but for example tracking and accumulating just motion delta will give you motion relative to the start alignment at best and of course with the danger of losing accuracy as it accumulates over time
So you still need to either calibrate at least the start alignment to the 3d scene or of course every frame, either during capture with some external sensors or post capture, which is exactly what most matchmove software do
So in theory yes, if you live in an ideal world and can record all necessary data (motion, alignment, 3d scene representation) precisely it would probably give you perfect alignment, but in real world it's probably much easier to compute best fit alignment per frame and get visually as perfect representation of the camera motion within the imperfect 3d scene representation than having perfect relative motion that doesn't align to anything
You can probably always combine all the information you have, like sensor data, in tracking to get to the result easier especially for difficult to track shots, but then it may be a question of whether its worth capturing and syncing it if you'd still need to use image based alignment and match move techniques anyway
But again,just my limited understanding of the issues
Technical Discussion » Different mass to each RBD fractured pieces, How?
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you can use $OBJ local variable for example
so something like:
you can of course use it to pick $OBJ-th value from some SOP geo storing the piece density values on points using
or even from a space separated string using arg() whether its typed in manually or even stored as a detail attrib
etc...
so something like:
fit01( rand( $OBJ ), 500, 1000 )
point("../../OUT_piece_densities", $OBJ, "density", 0)
atof( arg("100 50 1000 75 1500 645.5 711 537.4", $OBJ) )
Technical Discussion » Accessing binding in functions in OpenCL
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While I'm not that familiar with OpenCL snippets, I'd assume it's the same as in VEX, where you need to pass those values as function arguments from the main body of the shader
since the snippet syntax is not part of the language
since the snippet syntax is not part of the language
Technical Discussion » Transforming matrix with python API ignores translation
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In other words most matrices in Houdini are in Row Major order so bear that in mind overall when doing matrix operations in Python or VEX as that may also imply different order of operations than you are likely expecting if you are used to operate Column Major matrices
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月6日 17:56:25
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » SOLVED Creating relative channel references with attribute
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stinzenSounds point wrangle should work
I tried creating a channel path with ch("../" + name) in vex but the value in the channel wasn't actually referenced.
s@unreal_instance = chs("../" + s@name);Edited by tamte - 2025年2月6日 17:46:54
Animation » Configure Joints - How make work?
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gordignot sure what exactly you tried
I've had absolutely no luck applying limits to IK controllers. If I try to apply a rotation limit to, say, leg_l_fore_ik_target, it will add minlock:r and maxlock:r values of 0,0,0 no matter what's in the Configure Joints SOP, whether I'm using Configure Joints OR Configure Joint Limits SOP, whether I'm manually entering the limits or using a MotionClip...
edit: and of course, right after I posted that, I tried something I apparently hadn't tried yet: applying the limits to the actual joints instead of the controllers. Would be nice to know why that isn't working, though.
the setup I posted uses mapping defined on the controllers, it maps to joints, so you define limits on the joints and it will replicate the same limits on APEX controller copied from the mapped joint
leg_l_fore_ik_target likely maps to leg_l_fore joint
but it's likely that the configured limits on joints are in parent space, so for "t" likely {0,0,0}..{0,0,0} , however for "r" or with manually configured translation values values I'd expect it to produce nonzero results
also the limits are likely for the Animate state handles only, so while you can limit IK or FK handle itself, setting the FK controller limit doesn't actually limit the APEX skeleton joints during IK solve, that would need to be implemented in the APEX logic and likely configured using the actual joint limits
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月6日 00:44:36
Technical Discussion » COPYTOPOINTS with growing pointcount
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First of all make sure your Resample has
- Even Last Segment Same Length: Off
- Maintain Last Vertex: On
So that the segment length dont jitter
Then it's all about attributes on those points
Are you computing those during the sim or post sim?
Are they supposed to evolve aligned to curves or randomized?
If post sim you can base randomness of your instancing attributes based on point's prim vertex number per curve, rather than on global @ptnum and everything should be stable, for example:
If during sim the same applies, just instead of generating copy them from the same curve from matching prim vertex number and generate just on not matching ones
That will allow you to update and evolve such attribs during the sim
- Even Last Segment Same Length: Off
- Maintain Last Vertex: On
So that the segment length dont jitter
Then it's all about attributes on those points
Are you computing those during the sim or post sim?
Are they supposed to evolve aligned to curves or randomized?
If post sim you can base randomness of your instancing attributes based on point's prim vertex number per curve, rather than on global @ptnum and everything should be stable, for example:
i@id = vertexprimindex( 0, @vtxnum ) + 1000 * @primnum;
If during sim the same applies, just instead of generating copy them from the same curve from matching prim vertex number and generate just on not matching ones
That will allow you to update and evolve such attribs during the sim
PDG/TOPs » ROP Fetch TOP - how to use ROP Node Configuration?
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the CH references are ok, but still require a setup, it's be nice to be able to just add TOP related parameters on the ROP itself that ROP Fetch could inherit
that way the same ROP fetched into one or multiple TOPnets can produce the same result as it's configured without User having to think about what needs to be channel referenced
of course this is just a workaround to seemingly not being able to fetch configured TOP node statically https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/99586/ [www.sidefx.com]
since that would also allow to have config already on the TOP node which is part of the setup and just fetch to a bigger TOPnet to set dependencies
that way the same ROP fetched into one or multiple TOPnets can produce the same result as it's configured without User having to think about what needs to be channel referenced
of course this is just a workaround to seemingly not being able to fetch configured TOP node statically https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/99586/ [www.sidefx.com]
since that would also allow to have config already on the TOP node which is part of the setup and just fetch to a bigger TOPnet to set dependencies
Technical Discussion » How to I read a key-value dictionary from an expression?
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GrahamDClarkif you mean reading dictionary attribute, then you can also use hscrip which I think has a cleaner syntax
found you can also do this expression in parm:hou.node("/stage/sopcreate1/sopnet/create/IN_pt1").geometry().point(0).attribValue('dict')['key'] hou.node("/stage/sopcreate1/sopnet/create/IN_pt1").geometry().attribValue('stuff')['it']
point("/stage/sopcreate1/sopnet/create/IN_pt1", 0, "dict.key", 0)
detail("/stage/sopcreate1/sopnet/create/IN_pt1", "stuff.it", 0)
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月3日 01:29:05
Technical Discussion » Is it possible to create a reusable-but-modifiable material?
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You can use primvars on your models to overwrite any of the numerical material inputs, in which case all your models can share a single material
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Loading materials with SOP import in LOPs
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what that note means is essentially that SOP Create LOP will create, populate and assign a material library based on already existing "shop_materialpath" attribute in SOPs since it is a wrapper of SOP Import LOP, Material Library LOP and Assign Material LOP
and for convenience you can have Object Merge SOP inside and promote it's objpath1 parm to the top
you will however need to click on Auto Fill Materials to build the multiparm based on the referenced geo, if you want something automatic beyond Scene Import, maybe Python LOP
and for convenience you can have Object Merge SOP inside and promote it's objpath1 parm to the top
you will however need to click on Auto Fill Materials to build the multiparm based on the referenced geo, if you want something automatic beyond Scene Import, maybe Python LOP
Edited by tamte - 2025年2月2日 18:29:59
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Loading materials with SOP import in LOPs
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From the Sop Import Help
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/lop/sopimport.html#enabling-parameters
To retrieve both the geometry and generate USD materials for an object authored in Houdini, you can use a SOP Create node, or a combination of a SOP Import to import the geometry, a Material Library LOP to bring in the materials, and a Material Assign LOP to bind the two together.
You could also use a Scene Import LOP to import geometry and materials with a single node, but it provides fewer control over the import process.
日本語フォーラム » APEXにて、ForEachPointBegin/Endの処理を高速化出来るのか知りたい
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kurosabayou can also use sop::attribvop callback to process geo in a similar way to Attrib Wrangle in SOPs
そうする以外に、ジョイント毎へ処理を実行することが出来なさそうだったからです。
there is a "vexsnippet" input where you can type your wrangle snippet
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