You don’t really want to, it is one of those things that will challenge you at first and the you will see how much better is this appraoch.
Regardless of my opinion, if you want to collapse in the sense of Softimage, lock the node and delete the network upstream.. that is effectively the same. jb > On 20 Feb 2017, at 21:44, Paulo Cesar Duarte <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > 2017-02-20 18:36 GMT-03:00 Andy Goehler <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > Be advised, this will increase your file size. A lock on a node is > essentially caching at that node. > If you must, I’d advised to collapse to subnets. > > Andy > > >> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:30 PM, Olivier Jeannel <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the yellow) ) This will >> lock the node like a "freeze". Everything above is computed and "locked". >> >> 2017-02-20 22:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Cesar Duarte <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> 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] >> <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[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] >>> <mailto:[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>. 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