ChannyC

Ok,

I have the Beatrix charachter loaded in Houdini, but I have no clue how to select and move her bones for animation. I've been watching a few tutorials, but I'm just getting more and more confused.

Can someone link me to an easy tutorial, or tell me how to do this? Thanks!

*EDIT*

We've somewhat figured it out. Thanks.

Thank you for your informative reply.

I've been trying to run the program on my laptop, but what I may try is running it on my fiancee's desktop. He said his graphics card might support the OpenGL and we might not have all these problems.

Either way, this job offer is starting to go down the drain for me. If I can't get it working on his computer, I may just decline the offer… I'm a better 2d animator then 3d anyway. *sigh*


*EDIT* We got the program to work on my fiancee's computer, however… we both have no clue how to use it. My finacee didn't even have any idea how to make a keyframe, and he's gor a good handle on both XSI and MAYA.

Guess I'm off to try to fine some tutorials now.

Alright. This is getting rediculous.

The confusion over the ‘list’ is this:

All Programs> Side Effects Software> Houdini 8.1.866> Command Line Tools
Geometry Viewer
HDK Install
Houdini Escape
Houdini Halo
Houdini Master
Houdini Select
HScript
Image Viewer
Liscence Administrator
Uninstall Houdini

Which program do I use??


The error boxes, I took screenshots of:





The last one is what I get after clicking the link from the top picture to get the apprentice version. It keeps repeating itself over and over every time I try to close until I have to manually stop it through Window's task manager.

I probably have 120 meg shared graphics card, but really I don't see why this has ANYTHING to do with my problem of OPENING the program.

Now if I could please get some constructive and positive comments on how to fix the problem so I can open the program and get to work doing my test, it would be greatly appreciated.