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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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
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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!
not as elegant but might work?
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i made a better version that can handle really wonky shapes.
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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
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
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here is a little sing and a dance number to get a lop camera to nuke… 🙂
i have made a little set of helper nodes for nuke export. Nukem can send out cameras, meshes, and kineFX skeletons to nuke.
mostly intended for the obj/sops area. but this was a way to get a lop camera to play ball.
try it
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http://fx-td.com/houdiniandchill/wp-content/uploads/discord/20254702/06/25/Nukem.zip
slight issue with the intrinsic transform there.
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Here is a volwrangle that works a lot like the twist modifier.
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