Ever wanted an easier and better Lattice Deformer in Houdini?
This is for you:


Lattice_B on Gumroad [tinyurl.com]
Cheers
CYTE

Brilliant, just got it and it's so much easier to use then the default Lattice.

Muchas gracias !

Hey toonafish,

Much appreciated! And thanks for the tip!

Cheers
CYTE

Small Fixes:
+"Orient Search Radius" set to Zero defaults to Oriented Bounding Box mode. (useful if Orientation fails for flat objects)
+"SRT Size" set to zero makes SRT unselectable.

Cheers
CYTE

Hey thanks for the update.

I just replaced the previous files ( "sop_lattice" and lattice_b_core" ) in the "C:\Users\...\otls" folder, but strangely enough I get a "missing the parent of a node on load..." error message when loading a scene where I used the previous 1.2 version.

With a new scene this update works just fine.

Hey toonafish,

If you removed the older versions of the asset, this is the expected behaviour.
But you can activate the asset definition toolbar and select the new asset definition afterwards.
After a save, the error should be fixed.

Cheers
CYTE

Aha ! I didn't know that, and strangely enough this toolbar is hidden by default.

But after some searching I found the Asset Manager config panel and problem solved.

Thanks.

Hey, I was wondering how to rotate several selected lattice points around their combined center ?

I selected several lattice points and when I try to rotate them, the gizmo is not automatically centered and when I try to center the pivot in Pivot Mode, I get some strange deformations.

Thanks.

Hey toonafish, that is a compromise I had to make.
The RigPose state that lattice_B uses does not support this kind of rotation.
Sry.

Cheers
CYTE

Thats a big bummmer, back to the silly Houdini Lattice then.

But thanks for the speedy reply.

I noticed the group selection dropdown menu doesn't work in the Lattice_B panel, all I can do is manually pick select the points that should be affected or add the name manually.

Is that a bug or just a Houdini Limitation ?