Aslak Kjølås-Sæverud

AslakKS

About Me

3D Generalist
EXPERTISE
Generalist

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LOCATION
Bergen, Norway
WEBSITE

Houdini Skills

ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling  | Lighting  | Fluids  | PDG  | VEX
INTERMEDIATE
Environments  | Digital Assets  | Motion Editing  | Animation  | Hair & Fur  | Cloth  | Solaris  | Mantra  | Karma  | Pyro FX  | Destruction FX  | Realtime FX  | Python
BEGINNER
Crowds  | Muscles

Availability

I am currently employed at Devant

Recent Forum Posts

What to expect using a Wacom tablet with Houdini on Linux Jan. 29, 2026, 7:01 p.m.

Wacom should work out of the box (it does for me) and if you just need to map the pen buttons you'll be fine.
It can get a bit trickier if you want to map tablet buttons too.

How to make the Help pane open in system browser? Jan. 16, 2026, 11:08 a.m.

btw, you don't need to specify the path to the browser.
"HOUDINI_EXTERNAL_HELP_BROWSER": 1, is enough, would be nice if it was just a preference instead >.>

No status bar update while cooking on Arch Linux Jan. 14, 2026, 1:19 p.m.

This is because you're probably running Houdini under XWayland, don't think there is anyway to fix it until Houdini supports Wayland natively. Other than getting a desktop environment that's still running X11.