Aslak Kjølås-Sæverud
AslakKS
About Me
3D Generalist
EXPERTISE
Generalist
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LOCATION
Bergen,
Norway
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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
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Recent Forum Posts
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.
Help me understand the new Live Simulation mode Dec. 24, 2025, 6:17 a.m.
You need to base the Pop Object's Creation Frame on the live tick instead of frame number.
- Set Creation Frame to ch("../continuouscook_tick")==0
- Enable Live Sim on the DOP net
- Make sure Live Tick is at zero
- Enable Live Nodes in your houdini session
- Do step 1 & 3 if you add other dop objects to the sim.
object size changes with rotational motion blur in karma Dec. 19, 2025, 7:11 a.m.
This seems to be because sop -> usd does not like packed pivots. Here is a slightly cursed solution, "removing" the packed pivot.
edit: Enabling Calculate Spin per Wheel on rbd follow path also seemed to help
edit: Enabling Calculate Spin per Wheel on rbd follow path also seemed to help