I played around with emulating some After Effects typography. Feel free to check out the thread on OdForce.
https://forums.odforce.net/topic/49794-after-effects-text-styles/ [forums.odforce.net]
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Houdini Indie and Apprentice » How to do typography animation?
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Technical Discussion » Difference in contrast of Karma viewport and render
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The viewport is just a guide. You're comparing an 8 bit jpeg screen grab to a floating point EXR color space. What you render is the true pixel value. Click the viewport full range button and adjust the viewport f-stop to match the viewport to the render, but I think most people look past that task and just accept the render is the final look.
Edited by Enivob - yesterday 09:21:14
Technical Discussion » Geometry to surface using UVs
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Not sure if this is an exact fit, but check out this link:
https://forums.odforce.net/topic/31788-orient-along-organic-surface/#comment-175716 [forums.odforce.net]
https://forums.odforce.net/topic/31788-orient-along-organic-surface/#comment-175716 [forums.odforce.net]
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Help connecting the dots
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One thing to remember is that when inside a loop, there is only one point, point #0. Every single point presents itself as point #0 while inside the loop. So your first attribute wrangle is always true. Don't forget to leverage the Single Pass feature located on the Block End node of your loop. Activate the checkbox to step through each iteration of your loop.
Technical Discussion » Impossibility to reproduce examplaes from docs
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Yep, old tutorials can lead to a dead end. Try visiting the tutorials on this site under the Learn menu up top. You can filter by Houdini version to find guidance that matches your install. Don't give up. At the start, the learning curve is a little steep, but once you climb that hill, you'll see a blooming meadow of visual effects.
It takes about a year for Houdini to sink in, at least for me, it did.
It takes about a year for Houdini to sink in, at least for me, it did.
Edited by Enivob - May 17, 2024 08:15:07
Technical Discussion » Suck fire into thin stripes 10 metres away
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Technical Discussion » Suck fire into thin stripes 10 metres away
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Houdini Indie and Apprentice » POPnet not birthing particles from source
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Try switching your emission type to All Points. Then revisit your Birth setting to reduce the Impulse Count. Turn it down to 1. You probably don't want 10,000 copies of all your input points generated per-frame.
Edited by Enivob - May 16, 2024 11:08:07
Technical Discussion » Suck fire into thin stripes 10 metres away
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Not sure if this is considered fast or clever, but you can use a divergence field with a negative value to attract smoke.
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Smear Effect
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Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Smear Effect
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Using your screen shots, I assembled the network. I'm not getting the same extreme smoothness shown in your example animation. Can you share what settings you used on the wrangles? Should both back steps be synchronized? Is the trail a compute velocity?
Edited by Enivob - May 15, 2024 17:02:48
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Open GL quality settings?
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Technical Discussion » start scene with changed frames
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You can run python code to customize Houdini on startup.
Create a "scripts" folder in side your Houdini 20.xxx folder and drop this code into a text file.
On my system, the file path is: C:\Users\Admin\Documents\houdini20.0
Save the text file with the exact name of "123.py" inside the scripts folder. Launch Houdini, and the code will run, setting your time line to the frame range.
Learn more about startup scripts here...
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/locations.html [www.sidefx.com]
Create a "scripts" folder in side your Houdini 20.xxx folder and drop this code into a text file.
On my system, the file path is: C:\Users\Admin\Documents\houdini20.0
def main(): hou.playbar.setFrameRange(1001,1241) if __name__ == '__main__': main()
Learn more about startup scripts here...
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/locations.html [www.sidefx.com]
Edited by Enivob - May 14, 2024 08:46:26
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » invisible attributes
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I think that is by design. You have to specifically let the node know want to control the length from an attribute.
Technical Discussion » Cooking issue in Houdini 20 when caching to disk
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Funny you mention it. I recently experienced something similar while trying to scrub a cache. It kept cooking up stream. It didn't make sense because my display and template flags were on the FileCache, which fetched loaded data. I even move the cache node into a new, empty Geometry node. It wasn't until I closed Houdini, relaunched and created a new File node to reference the cached data that I could finally scrub it.
I was using H20.547.
I was using H20.547.
Edited by Enivob - May 13, 2024 12:44:54
Solaris and Karma » Solaris does not recognize Python-made Karma materials
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I'm no Solaris expert, but I think Solaris is built on pathing, so where things are located is highly important.
I altered your code, and it worked to create a material subnet inside a material library on stage. However, the subnet was empty in both test context. Maybe Solaris isn't recognizing it because there is no actual material in the subnet.
I altered your code, and it worked to create a material subnet inside a material library on stage. However, the subnet was empty in both test context. Maybe Solaris isn't recognizing it because there is no actual material in the subnet.
Solaris and Karma » Solaris does not recognize Python-made Karma materials
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Wouldn't you need to create the materials inside a material library instead of the /mat context? Perhaps alter your hou.parent path to point to a Solaris-based node?
hou_parent = hou.node("/stage/materiallibrary1")
Edited by Enivob - May 13, 2024 10:05:39
Houdini Engine for Unreal » Alembic and FBX Render Operator not exporting anything.
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3rd Party » Houdini Alembic doesn't render in Blender
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No geometry nodes are needed. It's part of Blender's Data block processing. Blender can natively extrude any curve.
Edited by Enivob - May 9, 2024 13:23:38
Houdini Indie and Apprentice » Print statements not showing in Wrangle
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Sometimes, it's easier to assign your debug into to an attribute instead of printing it. Then you can examine the value per-point inside the geometry spreadsheet.
s@debug = sprintf("%f",999);
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