Mike Abbott
Mike_A
About Me
Generalist 3D freelancer with many years experience in 3D modelling, technical and concept visualisation and 3D / 2D compositing.
Also highly experienced certified trainer in Photoshop, After Effects and PremierePro.
EXPERTISE
Generalist
Houdini Skills
ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling
INTERMEDIATE
Environments | Digital Assets | Animation | Lighting | VEX
Availability
I am available for Freelance Work
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Recent Forum Posts
Why does Poly Extrude direction change if I duplicate it? June 15, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Initially, with your open box, the extruded edge has a normal pointing to +X, so the first extrusion is in that direction. However, that extruded face causes the normal of that edge to be recalculated to +Y, so the second extrusion is made in the +Y direction.
If you picked the leading edge of the original extrusion for the second extrusion (specify it in the group field), it would extrude in the original direction.
If you picked the leading edge of the original extrusion for the second extrusion (specify it in the group field), it would extrude in the original direction.
It seems that the bicycle gear chain can't be implemented in June 15, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
It's not APEX, but couldn't this be done simply with the Chain SOP?
Houdini 22 Sneak Peek June 9, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
Maybe the marketing team have decided to take a different approach and not reveal everything at this stage. It is a 'sneak peek' after all.