"To get anything working" That's simply not true. Yes you can use some expressions here and there, and some of it is the houdini way. Once you learn expression they make your life easier. I personally use Evernote to write them down, eventually you will learn them.
The setup you described can be done with no expressions at all.. Up to you though ;) On 3 November 2016 at 14:43, Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','x...@colorshopvfx.dk');>> wrote: > Well yes, I am sure Houdini is up to the task, and almost as sure I am not > ;-) I tried a bit of Houdini tutorial once and quickly got stuck because > you have to type in expressions here and there to get anything working, and > I am just not the syntax type. > > I actually found that Gustavo Eggert Boehs fine Motion Tools probably can > do what I want, so I will give that a spin. > > //Morten > > > > > Den 3. november 2016 klokken 14:46 skrev Cristobal Infante < > cgc...@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cgc...@gmail.com');>>: > > > > > > This would be very straight forward in houdini, and possibly a good > > exercise to get going ;) > > > > On 3 November 2016 at 13:19, Morten Bartholdy <x...@colorshopvfx.dk > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','x...@colorshopvfx.dk');>> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to put together an effect where I need to explode > prefractured > > > chunks of geometry from a mesh. > > > > > > Ideally it should be controllable so I can move a null o an object > around > > > and start bits flying off away from the original unfractured objects > > > surface along the normals. > > > > > > I Have fractured the bits and used Julian Johnsons excellent Faster > > > Polygon Islands operator to generate particles and lock the chunks to > the > > > particles. This setup works fine in a non simulated tree where I can do > > > nonsimulated effects like turbulizing the position of the particles > with > > > emtool_turbulize_position, but I need to make it simulated, apply some > > > forces, and use some sort of inititalizing object for the effect, so > it can > > > be animated to grow from one place on the geoemtry and spread out over > the > > > surface. > > > > > > I can't really figure out how to take the pointcloud generated by > Julians > > > emVI_Create Particles from Island Centres and explode the particles. Is > > > there perhaps a tutorial somewhere or a different method for attaching > > > geometry to particles and simulate them, either just straight forward > or as > > > Bullet RBDs? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > //Morten > > > ------ > > > Softimage Mailing List. > > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com');> > > > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com');> > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com');> > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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