Chris Rydalch

goldleaf

About Me

Member of R&D team at SideFX, working to improve Solaris and Karma workflows in Houdini. Spent the previous 10+ years in FX, crowds, animation, character fx, and pipeline departments for feature animation.
専門知識
Technical Director
業界:
Film/TV

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LOCATION
Kansas, United States
ウェブサイト

Houdini Engine

Availability

Not Specified

チュートリアル

obj-image Beginner
Creating USD Assets with Component Builder
obj-image Quick Tips
Keyframe Functions, Extrapolations, and Box Handles
obj-image Intermediate
IFD Workflow Basics
obj-image Beginner
Mantra Light Instancing Basics

My Talks

obj-image Houdini HIVE
Creating USD Assets with Component Builder

Recent Forum Posts

RECEPIE - Unable to store a recepie with `karmalensmaterial` 2024年7月15日9:49

The Karma Lens Material is itself essentially a recipe. It isn't currently implemented that way, but it is something we plan to convert over.

But there isn't a Karma Lens Material LOP node type to "host" the recipe.

Light Instancing in 20.5 2024年7月13日22:58

tomtm
Thank you goldleaf, it's good to have some sample files. It's rocket science :-)

No problem. We've also just added a related example to the Content Library. It's the Warehouse scene used for some of our launch demos. It has some complex and simple examples of light instances (as well as some other features/workflows).

https://www.sidefx.com/contentlibrary/warehouse-lights/
[www.sidefx.com]

tomtm
Just another question: What exactly means in Karma Primary Samples Minimum Samples -1? What is -1?

It means Karma will automatically pick the minimum number of Primary Samples to fire, before it starts the adaptive sampling. We'll have to make a not to clarify that info in the docs/user guide.

Scene Graph Details selection with Python 2024年7月12日15:16

Not as far as I know; please log an RFE though, if you'd like this considered for the Scene Graph Details. Thanks!