I think the thing that can cause frustration when applying an ICE mindset to Houdini is that ICE had quite a few macro helpers even when working at a micro level. VEX and VOP functions in Houdini by comparison are often far more granular. That means that functionality provided by a single node in XSI often requires multiple nodes/functions in Houdini. I’m hoping that VOPs is further developed to include a library of ‘Compound’ like macros. If there’s any area’s where former XSI artists could help the SideFX developers improve Houdini, this seems like a winner to me.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fabricio Chamon Sent: 28 March 2017 15:26 To: [email protected]; Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Random Thoughts about H. putting my little knowledge to action: from what I understand about your question, you need to store your calculated data as an attribute (per point, in this case). Then just refer to it at other nodes on your tree. While at the object context there's no such a thing as a generalized "get" node, because you'll be using the attribute value directly inside nodes (at input parameters or inside vex on the "...wrangle" nodes). Inside VOPs the equivalent to ICE "get data" is the "bind" node and equivalent to "set data" node is "bind export" node. Is that what you asked? 2017-03-28 16:07 GMT+02:00 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: thanks for the replies. much appreciated What I really want to know is not so much how to do the maths to calculate a PRF , as I have that working. In ICE, when you ‘get pointreferenceframe’ it automatically calculates it on the location and feeds you the result but its just a GET .. Is there a way of triggering a similar behaviour, rather than literally connecting maths nodes to calculate it yourself. for example would it have to be done in VEX? so you have one node which does the work and feeds you a PRF? From: Olivier Jeannel <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 12:24 PM To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List.https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Random Thoughts about H. Not exactly the Point Reference frame, but I used this method to get "solid" rotation on a projetc. Not sure it's simple enough, as you have to feed the orient attribute with something to start using it localy. https://vimeo.com/207626604 2017-03-28 11:51 GMT+02:00 Fabricio Chamon <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: whaaat? that is do comforting. =) nice job sidefx 2017-03-28 11:42 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Moore <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >: Very impressive indeed. From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [mailto: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: 28 March 2017 09:47 To: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Subject: Re: Random Thoughts about H. Hahahaha! That's amazing :) When I got an email from SideFX changing the status of the RFE to "Fixed", I just assumed that they had agreed that it was a valid request that they'd look into, not that they'd actually gone and bloody done it. Well done SideFX! In case he's still reading this thread, thanks to Mark Tucker at SideFX who dealt with this so promptly. A On 28/03/2017 08:31, Andy Goehler wrote: Good morning, this is the awesome support at SideFX Available in the daily builds. yesterday <https://www.sidefx.com/media/uploads/changelog/icons/icon_netui.jpg> Houdini 16.0.561 Added a hotkey to temporary toggle the state of the "Allow Dropping Nodes on Wires" preference while in the middle of dragging a node. On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 at 12:22, Andy Nicholas < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote: No problem Jonathan. A quick update to this following discussions with SideFX: 1) I don't recall if this was mentioned in the thread earlier, but they mentioned that you can enable/disable the auto-connect on wires using CTRL+8 or in the Network View menu under Tools-> Allow Dropping Nodes on Wires. This doesn't work during a drag operation though, so I've gone back and explained the desired workflow of having a modifier key to toggle the behaviour during the dragging of nodes. I just thought I'd post this in here now case it's useful to anyone in the mean time. 2) They pointed out that I was incorrect when I said earlier in this thread there wasn't an equivalent view of Softimage's Explorer view where you can see clean hierarchies of objects. You can do it in the Tree View. You just need to enable the Object Filter (the first button in the Tree View's tool bar). You can also right click on the Tree View toolbar, and there are various other options in there which can be helpful for sorting and grouping the objects in a tree structure. Definitely worth playing with anyway. Sorry for the misinformation before! Cheers, A On 26/03/2017 13:55, Jonathan Moore wrote: Thanks Andy. From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: 26 March 2017 00:37 To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/xsi_list> <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Random Thoughts about H. I also like Pauls idea of a modifier key to disable the auto connection on demand. Definitely seems a worthwhile enhancement request. FYI, I’ve submitted an RFE to Side Effects and sent them the link to this thread. A ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. 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