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you can set color or MainWindow right after you create it. self.setStyleSheet("QMainWindow {background: 'green';}") Not sure how to change the color of background dynamically, but you can use another widget and connect it's signal to update the color. Cheers!

While on this topic, how do i do an event callback for the new instance? I can do it for the current scene using hou.hipFile.addEventCallback(self.some_hip_event) But been trying to add one before it loads another new instance.

Awesome. Thank you!

How do you load a new instance of houdini from current scene's shelf tool? hou.hipFile.load(path) loads to current scene.

Hey ppl! So in a standard flip simulation, i'm sourcing collisionvel (vdb) from a source volume. How do you apply that collisionvel only to a particular point group? Not sure what i have to modify in the flip solver or is there a easier way to control this? Thanks!

Solved it! Had to use a sop solver under crowd source. For some reason the crowd trigger weren't updating the particle attributes. Guess it can only read already updated ones.

Hello ppl. I'm still messing with my new interest on crowds and got stuck in a situation. So i have 10-15 agents in 'idle' state and among them 3 random agents change their state to 'headshot' ( I'm using pop groups set to random). Now i want the rest of the agents to change their state to 'scared' soon after 'headshot' state is triggered. Here's what i've tried.. 1. Made a group/attribute when the headshot state is triggered and use that on the crowd trigger vex. Did not work... i@trigger = 0; if (@group_groupname or attribute == 1){ i@trigger = 1; } 2. Used the state trigger expression directly on crowd trigger. Nope. i@trigger = 0; if (s@state == "headshot"){ i@trigger = 1; } The only expression that works is with @Frame. I have to manually find the frame where the agent get triggered to the 'headshot' state and enter it. Moreover my next step is to trigger the 'scared' state by radius/proximity. Any help or ideas is appreciated. Thanks!

Came across this post few weeks ago. Take a look. Might help. Cheers!

Hard to help without a scene file. But if i had to guess, maybe the base geometry your points are growing on has a noise or animated seed on it? You can visualize the point numbers on the viewport and check node by node where the point numbers are changing. Hope this helps!

If i understood your question right, you can click the small button on the right end of the translate then select the helper you want to snap to, on the viewport. It will give you the translate values of the selected helper. Same goes for other parameters. Cheers!

You can use a fluid source set to 'pump' or make your own in vops and feed it into source volume set to 'pump' or use a gas field wrangle to bring in the vel field. Have attached few links below; might help. Cheers! https://forums.odforce.net/topic/17837-flip-pump-from-object-volume/?tab=comments#comment-108139 https://forums.odforce.net/topic/38831-modify-splash-in-flip-sim-by-sink-pump-or-pop-nodes/?tab=comments#comment-188764 https://forums.odforce.net/topic/18012-helicopterdynamic-flip-waves-test/?tab=comments#comment-136617

No matter which workflow you follow, in the end it comes down to how much time you have to finish the shot of such scale. Your workflow is straight forward and will definitely work. But if you have good amount of time on your side you can optimize your shot quite a bit, but expect hitting into some annoying problems along the way which could consume more time. Even though every artist have their own workflow and a way of optimizing, here's what i would do; 1. Simulate and cache waterfall separately and pump it's vel into the river sim. You can use vel only from the portion that hits the river. Gives you good control on how splashy you need the waterfall to be. 2. That definitely helps with the quality. 3. Fluid compress takes care of that. You can always edit the attributes you need anyways. 4. Particles should be enough to make foam, bubbles etc 5.No idea if that helps. sorry. 6. No idea about upres. But i usually combine 2 or 3 medium res caches with different seeds. Take a look at this discussion though. Might help. Cheers and goodluck!

That's the only choice i guess....and let it render over the weekend. The dop is reading attributes like scale, cluster and div size which is assigned outside the simulation and somehow applying it to each cluster container. Trying to figure out how to bring other attributes like timescale, the same way before taking the long route. If it was pops or rbd, assigning attributes outside the sim will override or multiply with the dop attributes.

Thanks for the suggestion James. Wedging was my first choice as well but unfortunately i have to stick to clustering because i'm overriding division size per cluster, based on the distance from camera. And if i carry on with wedging, i might have to do multiple wedges with multiple resolutions which just keeps consuming more time and my limited disk space. (i have like more than 15 explosions atleast) That's a great article by the way. Cheers!

I see a straight forward flip sim emitting just from hand's and leg's velocity. You might have to spend quite a bit of time playing with the parameters to achieve the motion. Maybe lots of drag, swirly kernel, a touch of viscosity...etc