phanto

Hi. I was wondering how you draw and manipulate points in the viewer grid in 5.5. I'm used to 4.4, where theres a button which let's you select polyygonal or nurbs points and just start plotting them on the grid, but I can't find this on 5.5

Also, has anyone heard of a tutorial that show you how to realistically animate a ball flying through and breaking a glass window?

Thanks for answering me, Steven. I don't remember exactly what kind of card, I think an ATI Rage, I think it was a 16 mb card. Where can I look on my system to find out exactly? Also I looked at the “environment” tab in my system properties and noticed that the Houdini environment variable that was entered in a while back is set to a path on my C drive. I'm running Houdini 5.5 off of my E drive. Nevertheless, it's still an environment variable for Houdini 4.1. What to do???

I just downloaded the free Houdini 5.5 version and was wondering if someone could help me enter an environment variable into my system that would help the program run faster. I've run earlier versions of Houdini on this laptop, when I had a student license and this same thing happened. I called Side FX and someone helped me type in a variable, then it ran great. I'm using Windows NT 4.0, with service pack 6a installed, on a Dell Inspiron 7500 machine. All of my other programs run fine, but Houdini is just taking way long to redraw. Thanks!
Jorge Elbrecht