Luca Pataracchia

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Senior Production Consultant
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Since Jun 2018

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obj-image Intermediate
Opencl SOP for VEX users
obj-image Intermediate
PDG for FX Artists
obj-image Intermediate
OpenCL COP for VEX Users
obj-image Intermediate
Retarget the CMU Motion Capture Database
obj-image Intermediate
Surfacing Lidar
obj-image Node Reference
SideFX Labs | Post Animation Deform

Recent Forum Posts

FLIP Simulation Losing Volume Over Time Particles Disappea Nov. 22, 2025, 7:40 p.m.

You might try increasing your max substeps on your flip solver. Having fast collision objects in a flip sim will sometimes result in volume loss. More substeps can help with this. In your case it could be because the water is moving quickly when it hits the collision object.

How to pass a .py script to hython? July 20, 2023, 11:56 a.m.

I usually define a function in my .py file and put the code I want to run in that function. Then I do the following:

1. Start hython
2. soure my_module
3. my_module.my_function()

When I'm on Linux I use the shell. On windows I use cygwin for my shell. I've not tried this with the power shell

Flip Cache: How to save MULTIPLE cache nodes at once Oct. 5, 2022, 10:46 p.m.

You might want to do it in Tops instead of rops. Tops(PDG) will allow surfacing to execute immediately as soon as the frames from the Sim have finished. Rops while still a valid method is antiquated.