Well put Jon, it is true that the character rig Side Effects provide is
painfully slow when deforming but the issue is that it is trying to do soooo
much it is really sophisticated… and slow.
I will suggest to play with a fast rig like this one to get a feel… it won't be
as fast as Maya, this is one of the few strong points of Maya but it is good.
http://www.orbolt.com/asset/SideFX::toonsimple
And its a free asset so you can dig it and learn a lot from optimised rigging
in Houdini.
Jordi Bares
[email protected]
On 24 Apr 2014, at 13:13, Jon Swindells <[email protected]> wrote:
> houdini's handling of transforms is about as good as it gets.
>
> by default, you will get a zeroed out transform on creation but this can
> be pushed back onto the stack
> as needed.
>
> you can also quite happily stack utility transforms ala xsiNulls too if
> that floats your boat.
>
> the real eye opener though, is when you realise you can pull a transform
> from anywhere, at any time, from any object
> and branch however you like.
>
> it really does make the awkward maya (and xsi to some extent) type
> workarounds painfully trivial.
>
> pre/post firing morphs are trivial, as is quat/angle based triggering of
> morphs.
>
> there are really only 2 downsides to houdini for rigging/character setup
> -
>
> deformations are painfully slow - on a production scale character, you
> will be segmenting your mesh (hello 2004) and using bog standard
> non-deforming parenting to get anything remotely approaching realtime
> feedback.
> even the dist based skin is slow as mollasses.
>
> if your animator is used to (and wants/needs) the niceties of char
> pickers or on char controls
> expect to spend lots of time with pyside/pyqt.
>
> of course, that is if you can find an animator who doesn't look at you
> like your insane for suggesting houdidni as a char anim platform.
>
> Jordi hinted at something coming down the pipe for anim/char setup so,
> there's hope for it yet.
>
>
> gimbal mode is there if you need it.
>
> --
> Jon Swindells
> [email protected]
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, at 02:47 PM, David Saber wrote:
>> Cool! How about transforms on rig objects, how do you "zero out" control
>> objects? Is the object's coordinate relative to its parent, like in
>> XSI's "parent" translation mode? is there "add" mode for rotations?
>>
>> On 2014-04-24 13:23, Max Evgrafov wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7bRzijbsnA&feature=youtu.be
>>> completed the effect of collisions. (there are some bugs in the
>>> corners of obstacles. but I'm tired of doing this rig. :)
>>>
>>> Next step creating digital asset( I think it like model in XSI), Reach
>>> an understanding how working reference models in Houdini and then do
>>> animation.
