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Houdini 21 Muscle and Tissue Masterclass, focusing on the new Otis solver and other H21 features for the CFX workflow, using the new Otto test geometry and two simulation recipes as templates. Furthermore, the benefits of the Otis workflow over Vellum or FEM are discussed. H20.5 videos are pointed to for the parts of the workflow that remain largely unchanged.

Useful links: H20.5 Muscle Masterclass Essentials https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/muscles-masterclass-essentials/ H20.5 Muscle Masterclass Advanced & Special Topics https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/muscles-masterclass-advanced-special-topics/

For Lesson 21 please use the following snippet:

i@collisiongroup=4; i[]@collisionignore={0,1,2,3,4};

While the second one is:

if (find(i[]@collisionignore, 4) < 0)

{

append(i[]@collisionignore, 4); i[]@collisionignore = sort(i[]@collisionignore);

}

CREATED BY

Liesbeth_Levick
LIESBETH LEVICK

Liesbeth Levick is a Character Effects Technical Director at Side Effects Software, focusing on Muscles and Tissues. She studied Astrophysics and then moved on to work in grooming and CFX at animation and visual effects studios in South Africa and Canada. Her production experience includes creating tools and workflows for CFX in Houdini and helping transition studios to a Houdini-based CFX pipeline. Her familiarity with both artistic and technical roles drives her to build tools to make the lives of CFX artists easier.

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COMMENTS

  • aivfx 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    thanks

  • lorsange 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

    That's cool!!! Thank you for masterclass!!

  • sefstathiou 2 weeks ago  | 

    Amazing! Thank you!

  • sefstathiou 2 weeks ago  | 

    One quick question - I wasn't sure, but you mentioned there is a way to transfer Otto's Muscles (and I assume bones) to another character - maybe a bespoke character made by an artist, so we can use it as a rough starting point. Will this be demonstrated in an upcoming video?

  • Liesbeth_Levick 2 weeks ago  | 

    Yes, I do hope to create a video for this, but I don't have time for it currently, so it is still a few months away. For the time being, here is the documentation on using the Muscle transfer recipe https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/muscles/muscle_muscletransfer.html

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