Gian Marc Cadosch

It seems that the Metahuman Plugin for Houdini 21 is only available for Windows. Does anybody know if it's possible to install it on MacOS? Aren't plugins for Houdini generally OS independent because of Python?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to confirm the correct workflow for using the HoudiniHairProcedural with an animated character (a cat).

My current setup:

Groom is done on the rest pose of the cat (standing straight, neutral tail). From this rest setup I have:

• Skin mesh
• Guide curves
• Generated hairs

Then the cat is animated (e.g. laying on the ground, rolling, moving tail). I use a Guide Deform SOP to transfer the rest guides onto the animated skin, and then run those guides through a Vellum sim for wind effects.

In Solaris:

• I feed the animated skin + simulated guides + the rest hairs into a HoudiniHairProcedural LOP.
• I set the Deform Mode to Capture and Deform.


Questions:

Is this the correct workflow?
• Is the procedural intended to always take the rest hairs (together with animated skin + animated/simmed guides)?
• Or would it be more correct to instead generate hairs from the first frame of the animated guides and feed those into the procedural?

Ah yes, you're right. I can get it to work with your help! Clicking again on "Embree" does solve the issue! Many thanks for this!