Category: hou-general

rebuilt as much as I could remember, there are probably going to be some artifacts / bugs that pop up, but hopefully helpful as a starting point

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252904/22/25/cobwebs.gif
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252904/22/25/web_solver.hiplc

you can use a quad remesh once u have the triangles 😮 or a regular remesh + subdivide to get all quads

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250504/08/25/jr_geometry_from_two_boundary_curves_v0002.hip
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250504/08/25/image.png

quick tip, you can use heightfield remap on any volumes, same with other heightfield nodes like copylayer, blend, etc

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252803/26/25/image.png

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)

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20254102/23/25/ready.py

not as elegant but might work?

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20255302/13/25/perhaps_like_this.hiplc
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20255302/13/25/houdini_fEPTsFkEkc.gif

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

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20254102/13/25/houdini_qJDhuGUVYU.mp4
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20254102/13/25/wonky_shapes.hiplc

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.

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250802/12/25/image.png
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250802/12/25/sop_mattias.KineCam.1.0.hdalc
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

drag visualizer from source > common > click pencil, choose icon and click the upper right corner next to the ? to pin

save as default

then it will be permanent

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20250902/11/25/image.png

Here is a volwrangle that works a lot like the twist modifier.

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252002/03/25/noisespin.hiplc
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252002/03/25/houdini_yApmR0gE9g.mp4
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20252002/03/25/houdini_47eMA1SjUF.mp4

@.goldfarb. What do you mean __can’t__ select?! ||the quirk is that you need to have a selection already started||

Oh, if auto is enabled there is no need to press the button to commit the selection

Attachments in this post:
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20253601/28/25/geo_sheet_select-2025-01-28_22.20.07.mp4
http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20253601/28/25/image.png