Yes, I perfectly understand the procedural approach, but over the last years Houdini is getting better and better in interface and modeling tools, they are trying to make a complete 3d tool set in all areas, so the idea is use Houdini for all tasks, not only import things from Maya and make simulations, lets say that I want modeling a complete character or vehicle inside Houdini, I would end up with a hundred of SOP nodes. Houdini is an amazing software, I just don't understand why I can't collapse nodes, I think every DCC can do that, simplify things when necessary.
For now I'm going to lock the node and delete the network upstream when necessary, thanks for the tip. 2017-02-22 7:00 GMT-03:00 Jordi Bares <[email protected]>: > 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]>: > >> 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]> >> 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]>: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> ------ >> 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. > > > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > -- paulo-duarte.com
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