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[AndrewVK]

Hmmmm.....few weeks of silence....  
Ok...here is my solution.

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[michael]

hmmm...
what build did you make it in?...it fails here in 6.x


anyway....
I'm going to have to concede defeat over here....this battle anyway, not the war  

the solutions that most people have come up with are, IMO, not successful...
either a new OTL per rotation or an unlocked OTL with locked nodes or writing to disk...
I had a bit of something working with straight rotations and dynamic parents but it got way too complex really fast....

there must be a way to do this without anyone getting hurt.......

[FrankFirsching]

Well, here is my attempt on the rubix cube challenge. This was a very nice one for getting back to houdini after quite some time :-) I should mention, that I didn't look at any other solutions before finishing my scene.
P.S.: It was made with Houdini 7.

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[sibarrick]

I like Franks solution so simple, definately gets my vote. Very smart.  
And it works with the asset locked too. Arctor I think you spoke too soon.  

Do you know if there is a way to include the custom expressions into the otl?
I always end up avoiding them because they are specific to the hip file, I know you can save them out to a file but in a case like this how much nicer would it be if they were in the otl like a callback script. Is that possible already, does anyone know?

Maybe if the exread function could be used to source them from an otl, then you could include it in the "before first create" event to read them in, Ed?

[stevenong]

Hey Simon,

Yes, you can embed custom expressions into an OTL & exread them "On Create" or "Before First Create".

exread opdef:/Object/foo?custom_exprs.cmd

Cheers!
steven

[web_sdas]

hello, everybody, i am a new user.
it's interesting, let me try it, thx!!

[xoctan657]

hi
want to try if i can do this but until now i didn't get very good result and i have Q : can i do this without rigging and that because i don't know the rigging very much , so any one here did this without rigging , sorry for my Q but i don't want to see how this did befor i try all idea.

[rd1010]

Mario Morengo.. whats up with that link you posted on the first page? It leads to some spam site that messed up my browser and opened a bunch of windows.. might want to take that link down

Edited by rd1010, 04 September 2009 - 03:06 PM.