Houdini Stuff

Lifted from the Houdini help page.. Useful for localised noise/breakup You can attach DOP nodes that modify velocity fields, such as  G...

Houdini camera projection is as simple as creating a "UV TEXTURE" node and plugging it into the geo you're projecting onto. I...

i@size=len(i[]@nameOfArray); the [] is actually [   ].

to have particles come alive, mid sim (or indeed, to have them stop mid sim) you just need to trigger the "stopped" attribute in y...

float dist = xyzdist(1,@P); float distremap = fit(dist,ch("near"),ch("far"),0,1); f@density *= distremap; This gi...

group centre/centroid - intstead of blasting out groups and using $CEX etc, you can just use $GCX, $GCY, $GCZ in your transform pivots.

To expand - any - selection like in Maya... do your selecting then press SHIFT G (to grow) or SHIFT S (to shrink)