William Harley
william_harley
About Me
I started my career doing lighting, lookdev and VFX in Cape Town.
Always looking to streamline the character rigging and animation process
I got involved in setting up a rigging tools in houdini and assisting animators to get used to the
new tools, I have fallen in love with CFX, building rigs ... more
I started my career doing lighting, lookdev and VFX in Cape Town.
Always looking to streamline the character rigging and animation process
I got involved in setting up a rigging tools in houdini and assisting animators to get used to the
new tools, I have fallen in love with CFX, building rigs for films, games and cinematics. less
EXPERTISE
Generalist
INDUSTRY
Film/TV
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LOCATION
Cape Town,
South Africa
WEBSITE
Houdini Skills
ADVANCED
Procedural Modeling | Digital Assets | Character Rigging | Lighting | Pyro FX | VEX
INTERMEDIATE
Environments | Motion Editing | Animation | Hair & Fur | Cloth | Crowds | Muscles | Solaris | Karma | Fluids | Destruction FX | Realtime FX | PDG | Python
Availability
Not Specified
My Badges
SideFX Staff
Since Oct 2023
My Houdini Content
Recent Forum Posts
Apex - custom subnets / methods - export/import issue Feb. 3, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
Like Edward said, it wont pick up the subgraphs if you open houdini and then load the hip because its not aware of the hip dir when you open houdini. If you launch houdini by clicking the hip file it will load the subgraphs.
To reload the subgraphs you can run this in the python source editor or set up a shelf tool.
Otherwise add it to your houdini home directory "$HOME/apexgraph/" then it will be loaded in all your houdini sessions.
To reload the subgraphs you can run this in the python source editor or set up a shelf tool.
import apex apex.Registry().reloadSubgraphs()
Apex autorigbuilder - turn off stretchy spline/spine? Feb. 3, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Custom works, you just have to be mindful of the curve order. I explain how the curve order works for the spline here => https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/96509/ [www.sidefx.com]
Apex autorigbuilder - turn off stretchy spline/spine? Feb. 2, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
Hi, The spline on the rig builder might have some limitations due to keeping it compact and simple. You can however use the spline component where this can be set.
Here is and example of how to set that up.
Here is and example of how to set that up.