Houdini Stuff

We use the setattribtypeinfo function to force an attribute to be a color type. Just like Cd usually is. This will probably streamlined and ...

 Didn't realise this...and wasted about half an hour figuring it out.. If you, for example, are using a FETCH node or a rivet and need t...

At SOP level, select 3 points of the geo you need to attach a rivet to, this is to calculate rotation (if your object/mesh-area is rotating/...

matrix m = primintrinsic ( 0 , 'packedfulltransform' , @ptnum ); @orient = quaternion ( matrix3 ( m ));   Stole this from odfo...

This probably contradicts something I've written before, but you CAN export multiple colour sets in Houdini, for alembicking. The key is...

Covered this in an older post, but this is for more straightforward cases when you want to define a group and shape node name for Maya purpo...

Voronoi fracturing is often used to create destruction fx. It also creates a lot of dirty geometry, which leads to pain when exporting your ...

Sometimes you want to reorient your normals on an object. However when you do it & it turns out that your object is animated, the new no...

Assuming... you've duplicated objects around, animated them etc... AND the objects are single mesh things. Eg. a Sphere, a torus.... Not...

Create an alembic archive and bring the .abc file in that way. If you need to scale it to account for Maya's scene scale, make a Null n...