jkettles16 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Hello guys. I'm really digging Houdini and have been digging deep into training all over about it. It's a really steep learning curve but I'm seeing some of the rewards. I've been playing with Alembic import a lot as I'm used to Cinema 4D, and I find I can create things much faster there. I know the simulations are top notch in Houdini though so my pipeline ends up with me animating in C4D then sending it out. Importing has been the problem I've been running into. Right now I'm trying to scale with alembic node down. I read on a forum somewhere that I could plug a Null node up to the alembic archive and scale the whole thing down that way, but even with a basic cube in Houdini hooked up to a Null I'm getting no visual indication that any sort of scale is happening. I've clicked on just about everything I can think of in the Null settings. I can edit the transforms with the actual shapes themselves but I have a lot of shapes, and I'd like to take care of them in one go. I have a whole slew of other questions that just keep coming up that none of my training seems to cover, and I'm just trying to fill in the blanks here. The program is quite powerful, but so unwieldy at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkettles16 Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Just for anyone else, I figured it out. Most things seem to go down the network in Houdini but in this case I needed to put the Null upstream of the Alembic node for the Alembic to inherit scaling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 The Scene level is a parent-child relationship, whilst the Sop level and others is a processing graph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkettles16 Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Ah, I see now. Thanks marty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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