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Archived post by benandersen

for anyone who cares: I updated the type annotation stubs for Houdini for 20.5: pypi.org/project/types-houdini/ Should be a lot easier to maintain now.

Archived post by mattiasmalmer

Will post as soon as I get to my puter

put it in your python3.11libs folder. (make sure it is called ready.py. that makes houdini run it when it is supposed to)

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Archived post by mattiasmalmer

Why i made my own? No real reason. It is fast and has very few options.

I was mostly trying to learn

playing with something called laplacian blend.

it is a really nice way of blending two textures where high and low frequencies in the image are blended at different mip levels so that things blend into oneanother in a really pleasing way.

as you can see there is none of the ghosting that an ordinary soft masks gives you.

it does a really nice job of blending heightfields. you can see that there is no loss of high frequency data and yet there is no discontinuity in height.

try it yourself!

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http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252802/22/25/laplacian_blend.hiplc
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252802/22/25/houdini_9nOteyN3Wv.gif

I discovered that you can use pane.setSplitFraction() and you need to call it on the python panels “resize” event, then you can ovveride whatever automatic resizing that takes places, in case anyone else runs into the same thing!

Archived post by mattiasmalmer

not as elegant but might work?

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Archived post by mattiasmalmer

i made a better version that can handle really wonky shapes.

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http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20254102/13/25/houdini_qJDhuGUVYU.mp4
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Archived post by mattiasmalmer

KineCAM a way to animate your camera in sops

becomes easy to do a lot of common camera stuff. path animations. camera rigs. perhaps some spring system or let your camera follow a particle or whatever.

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http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250802/12/25/sop_render.frustum.1.0.hdalc
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250802/12/25/houdini_odAByYZ5Tn.mp4