Mike Ravella

Does anyone know if it is possible to output an .ifd from Houdini Apprentice? Right now I have the disk file checkbox checked on my mantra node, but when I click the render button I just get the image files rendered, and no .ifd file. The same file works on regular Houdini. The only other difference is that one is run on a Mac, and one is run on Windows. The Windows one is working, but surely that shouldn't make a difference, right?

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

I'm trying to make a cigarette exhale form into shape defined by geometry in an .obj file using particles.

Right now I'm trying to cover the surface in points using a scatter and point sop, and then use an attractor pop to get the particles to match. I then put the radius and radial force on the point sop to add.

However, the particles basically just go to the center of the object instead of distributing to all of the points on the surface of the object.

I've attached my pathetic attempt. I currently have a box in the scene instead of a mesh, because it's better I don't get ahead of myself.