Hey Pierre and Ed... I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP for now. There is a simple way to freeze modeling like XSI? Without the need of caching geometry, just freezing or collapse?
Cheers. 2017-02-10 19:48 GMT-02:00 Jordi Bares <[email protected]>: > A few thoughts of mine.. hope you don’t mind poking at those suggestions… > > On 3 Feb 2017, at 20:11, Ed Schiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Tim > I am just starting in Houdini as well and would be interested in a XSI > Shelf tools. > > > Good idea > > for these particular issues you mentioned, you could match the Translate, > Rotate, Scale and or Pivot using the icons on the right of these > parameters. very useful! > > > You have matching of transformations but may be I could put together a few > Softimage friendly ones too… > > and on the Modify shelft tab you have the Center Pivot button as well. > > > You may not want that, I rather suggest you install qLib and you will have > a bunch of presets installed on normal translation nodes that allow you to > do the centroid quickly, also placing in the center of the world, on the > floor, etc... > > also, under the Pre-Transform dropdown at the top of the Transforms tab, > you have Clean Transforms/Translate/Rotate/Scale with for my > understanding are basic as the Freeze in XSI. when you Extract these you > get your global transforms and when you Reset them you'd be setting the > Pre-Transforms back to zero… > > > The pretransforms are like XSI neutral pose > > Regarding Freeze… that is one of the things you may not want to inherit in > Houdini. Although at first made sense to me once I got a bit more under the > bonnet it was obvious that you can do it without having to rely on > freezing. Either by saving to disk, storing the resulting network on the > scene or other means. > > > hope that makes sense, I thought it to be very straightforward. Houdini is > very rewarding to learn, hope you enjoy. > > > :-) > jb > > > cheers > > On 3 February 2017 at 15:12, Tim Bolland <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey, I'm currently taking a good look at Houdini as an application moving >> forward and I'm wondering if anyone has or uses any custom scripts to mimic >> some of the more used functions of Softimage. I'm thinking of things such >> as "Match All Transforms" and "Move Center to Vertices". General workflow >> commands you realise you miss when you jump into new software, I can >> imagine a script savvy guy out there must have whipped up custom shelf as >> soon as the program opened <OutlookEmoji-😉.png>. Any information would >> be hugely appreciated. >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > > -- > www.edschiffer.com > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- paulo-duarte.com
------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
