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Hi everyone, Because of my job for the past year or so I have been using Maya for anything related to fx work and so, I have forgotten a lot of the workflows I took for granted in Houdini. Now, I am trying to get my head back in the game but I am having a bit of trouble transfering attributes and controling states in dops from sops operators. In the file I am attaching (which is based on an example I found right here on odforce), I am trying to get the Ground object I have in my scene to start breaking when the color attribute in the sops conext is red. It's not working right now and I am trying to find out what I am doing wrong. As you can see in the attached file, I tried to do it two ways (active value and glue) but I failed misserably on both counts. Can someone please explain to me what I am doing wrong? Also, if I wanted to set my velocity to the transfered N direction of the sphere object, how would I go about doing that? I know it is a hustle but, if you have the time, I would really appreciate any help. Best regards, George

Ok... I have been away from these forums for quite a while... now i am back and i have a serious question... Most of you are professionals working in the industry and all... I had an idea for a vfx reel of trying to replicate vfx scenes from various movies so that i can show what i can do to my future employer... On the other hand, they might think that i dont have the imagination to create my own scenes and be creative... What is your take on this? Should i create something totally new or recreate famous effects? Thanks in advance for any replies..

i have an oldie radeon 7200..... Houdini runs.... Very slow but runs nevertheless.... Geforce cards though are supported better by most 3d progs... So buy one of those....

Because i am working on something else right now for my job I will get on it later.... Thanks for all your suggestions guys.... One last thing... I have a problem using the VEX to control particle color... Because i want to give the particles a spark figure is there a node to connect to the opacity of the material that lets you use an image to control the opacity... Basically I am after the clip map if any of you know it by this name... Thanks in advance once again and excuse me both for my english and my stupid questions...

thanks a lot dante.. This was what i was looking for.... By the way, is there a way to give rotational and positional diferrencies per particle??? Not with the force but with interaction on particle level to create something like a small ai solution.... thanks in advance...

I wanna know if there is another way of doing other than writting a script for it.... Thanks in advance...

copy some metaballs on curves that represent the letters and animate the curves and the metaball size.... C ya...

you reinstall the program using the repair option for 5.5.... Had the same prob and it was fixed....

I am really new to houdini.. Just one month but i think that it can be done with i3d with low transparency and particles coming out of a sphere with a low antigravity factor to give it the spread amount it needs.... Also, you must use the sort operator to make the random birth... Just some tips from a newbie.. C ya...

Hey guys... I have been using houdini for less than a month but i will try to complete this chalenge... Love houdini but it takes a while to get used to... I am also using xsi and maya at the moment but the adjustment period wasn't as long as i expected it to be... Basically, just wanted to say that i will try and hi to everybody out there using houdini....