> On 20 Feb 2017, at 22:19, Matt Lind <[email protected]> wrote: > > You have to keep in mind Houdini is a non-linear system. > > Softimage's freeze and freeze modeling operations operate on construction > histories for individual objects. All the operators live in the same > construction history, so computing the result of the freeze is fairly > straightforward as you just evaluate the operators in order. > > In Houdini, there's real possibility one or more nodes may be shared with > networks for other geometries. Therefore you cannot assume a collapse is > possible without negatively affecting other parts of the scene. However, > the ability to create a new node with the entire history of a network or > sub-network up to point 'n' should be possible, but you'll likely have to > clean up the contributing nodes yourself to ensure no negative side effects.
I am sure you know but, you can actually display if a node has been reference from outside or it is picking things from the outside too, just press D in the network editor and go to the dependencies Tab… it is super useful when you deal with big scenes. Very true, the best approach instead of locking things is to actually freeze the geometry to disk using the filecache SOP node. It will keep your scenes small and super fast to load plus the cooking process will be super fast. I use this approach all the time in combination with the fetch ROP so I can regenerate all my caches in one quick go. jb > > Matt > > > > > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:44:31 -0300 > From: Paulo Cesar Duarte <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Soft to Houdini custom shelf / scripts. > To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. > > Hi Olivier and Andy, nice tip. > So there is no other way to just collapse everything? I find it's a little > strange that I can't do a true modeling collapse, the better way I find is > export .obj and import again. > > > > ------ > 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.
