
Matt Estela
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Matt Estela is a Senior Houdini Artist at RYOT. Previously he was VFX Lead in Residence at the UTS Animal Logic. Academy, and before that at Animal Logic he's been a VR Supervisor, Lighting Lead, Fx Lead, CG Supervisor, and is one of those annoying Houdini evangelists you don't want to sit next to on the bus.
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Vellum belt that affects a RBD wheel? May 27, 2022, 2:52 a.m.
Vellum and RBD can't directly affect each other.
Vellum does have a shape match constraint, which lets you make pretty rigid objects, and they then play nice with the rest of vellum.
Had a play today between other tasks, its ugly, and well past the point of 'is it worth it?', as I reckon you could fake it with just expressions and some clever sop tricks, but anyway, its a start.
Curious if anyone else has better ideas here. The alternative is go the other way, build this all in rbd, do the belt as a chain of connected rbd objects, but I'll leave that for someone else to solve.
Vellum does have a shape match constraint, which lets you make pretty rigid objects, and they then play nice with the rest of vellum.
Had a play today between other tasks, its ugly, and well past the point of 'is it worth it?', as I reckon you could fake it with just expressions and some clever sop tricks, but anyway, its a start.
Curious if anyone else has better ideas here. The alternative is go the other way, build this all in rbd, do the belt as a chain of connected rbd objects, but I'll leave that for someone else to solve.

Need Help ASAP! Redshift rendering color not showing May 24, 2022, 6:10 a.m.
lower level material assignments override higher level ones.
Karma XPU not accurately rendering standard shaders May 22, 2022, 1:14 a.m.
Yep, xpu is targeting materialx as its supported shader format. The mantra principled shader is getting live translated as a convenience, other mantra/vex nodes won't work.
Here's a hip of a stripey material built in materialx, it will work in both Karma CPU and XPU.
Here's a hip of a stripey material built in materialx, it will work in both Karma CPU and XPU.