General Houdini Questions

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1. Delta relative to tangent space

   By Gianluca Siciliano, February 6, 2020
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   • Gianluca Siciliano
   • February 8, 2020

2. HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR change not respected upon startup

   By tielax11, February 4, 2020   

   • houdini_user_pref_dir
   • houdini
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     • houdini
     • 123.py
     • enviroment
     • linux
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   • LaidlawFX
   • February 7, 2020

3. similar effect like look up constraint

   By justinngjw, February 3, 2020
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   • Feather
   • February 7, 2020

4. [HDA] How to replace mesh inside Unreal?

   By MAXLYJ, February 6, 2020
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   • MAXLYJ
   • February 6, 2020

5. Why this constraint node is easily collapsing?

   By dbstjdghks24, February 5, 2020   

   • constraint
   • houdini
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     • houdini
     • col
     • collapse
     • fracture
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   • Feather
   • February 6, 2020

6. Pop forces falloff options

   By patremblay, July 19, 2019
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   • patremblay
   • February 6, 2020

7. Houdini 18 Hqueue jobs displayed failed but renderoutputs exist

   By ibotatar, February 6, 2020   

   • houdini hqueue
   • hqueue
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     • hqueue
     • houdini 18
     • distributed rendering
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   • ibotatar
   • February 6, 2020

8. H18, "Quick UV Shade" SOP issue ...

   By Masoud, February 2, 2020   

   • quick uv shade
   • reload
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     • reload
     • update
     • texture
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   • Masoud
   • February 5, 2020

9. Reading/loading only part of a bgeo file on disk

   By underscoreus, February 4, 2020   

   • houdini
   • vex
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   • underscoreus
   • February 4, 2020

10. Light Sampling Issue (Mantra)

    By Feather, February 4, 2020   

    • lighting
    • rendering
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      • rendering
      • sampling
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    • Feather
    • February 4, 2020

11. Exporting Transforms to Alembic

    By catchyid, October 11, 2019
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    • martinkindl83
    • February 4, 2020

12. swirly lines catching object moving 1 2

    By caskal, January 29, 2020   

    • swirly
    • lines
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      • lines
      • catching
      • object
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    • caskal
    • February 3, 2020

13. [Question]How to know how many primitives in one node?

    By MAXLYJ, February 3, 2020   

    • vex
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    • MAXLYJ
    • February 3, 2020

14. Retime camera in sync with sim

    By scorpes, February 3, 2020
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    • scorpes
    • February 3, 2020

15. copy/stamp, alternative ways? 1 2

    By nicoladanese, September 6, 2019   

    • copy
    • instances
    • 21 replies
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    • nicoladanese
    • February 3, 2020

16. camera frustrum delete question

    By squardis, January 30, 2020   

    • camera
    • frustrum
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      • frustrum
      • delete
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    • wuquecn
    • February 2, 2020

17. How to properly UV fractured simulation for export to Unity? Currently texture does not move with geometry in Unity.

    By MostHated, January 22, 2020
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    • MostHated
    • February 2, 2020

18. convert lidar point cloud data to polygon mesh

    By christophejeudy, February 2, 2020
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    • konstantin magnus
    • February 2, 2020

19. Houdini to CNC (Depth map -isosurface Chops-trigonometry-Architecture)

    By Librarian, February 1, 2020   

    • patterns
    • math
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      • math
      • cnc
      • isosurface
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    • Librarian
    • February 1, 2020

20. In "Soft Transform" SOP, how can I use "attributes" tab?

    By Masoud, January 28, 2020   

    • soft transform
    • attributes
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    • Librarian
    • January 30, 2020

21. How to export uv texture as an image file?

    By hanjie94, January 20, 2020
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    • hanjie94
    • January 30, 2020

22. Houdini particle size in Maya

    By michaelb-01, March 30, 2015   

    • particles
    • alembic
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      • particles
      • alembic
      • pscale
      • export
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    • anim
    • January 30, 2020

23. Group

    By microvswind, January 29, 2020   

    • curve point group
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    • microvswind
    • January 30, 2020

24. Export Crowd Agent to FBX

    By Alain2131, December 4, 2019   

    • crowd agent
    • crowd
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      • crowd agent
      • crowd
      • agent
      • export
      • fbx
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    • Alain2131
    • January 29, 2020

25. Efficient way to instance/copy geometry onto points 1 2

    By ch3, June 25, 2015
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    • Yader
    • January 29, 2020