Rafal123 Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Hi fellows. I present NEW EXTRAORDINARY CHALLENGE: HOUDINI vs MAYA Check it out: http://www.rafal.stnet.pl/aquarium.mov (codec: Sorenson3, File Size: 10mb, animation time: 3 minutes) I made it few months ago in Maya. Description: 1. There are two HUD buttons. First emits fish and second emits food for fish. 2. Fish loose it scale/mass during time and when it hit to some point then fish die and changes into angel fish. 3. Fish must eat, and when it eats it grows and when it grows it feel feed so it doesn't swim to the next food untill it's hungry again. So food is eaten only by hungry fish. 4. Fish of course try avoids each other and aquarium walls. It looks a little bit slow in movie but it's because of my slow hardware Good Luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 hm.... my fedora cant play such MOV ... ... could you use a most commond Codec in case you didnt? xacodec: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/codecs/vid_3ivX.xa while /usr/lib/codecs/vid_3ivX.xa: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory VDecoder init failed :( cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIguel P Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 I can't see it in windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 ohh shit, sorry people, I'll prepare new version soon, this one use 3ivx codecs.... what type of codecs do you recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratman Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Sorrenson 3 or h.264 are prolly the best to use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 ok, check it now people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Am I allowed to submit SpiralMonkey's work? http://www.dreamaquarium.com/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 Am I allowed to submit SpiralMonket's work?http://www.dreamaquarium.com/index.html Hey edward, The Fish must meet requirements as I wrote in description. The main concept is: you bring the food, you bring new fish using buttons. Fish eat --> grow or die. If they meet requirements we are waitin for .hip file and show us how you made it. Ok, so edward is in, who's next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 hey Edward... I did tested your screensaver when you posted it as beta release... any change you'll build a Linux version? (i totally migrated now...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADjestic Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Personally I don't like the way the whole challenge is put. Due to it's odforce forum - I strongly doubt there will be any flame war, nevertheless let me suggest that this challenge doesn't really have anything to do with specifically Maya or Houdini or even effects- any package with sufficiently advanced scripting capabilities and ways to build up UI elements can accomplish that, if the user is granted necessary time. The real challenge would be to have some task accomplished using this or that technique (described or hinted at) and then require others to accomplish the same, using less steps/more efficient technique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 Personally I don't like the way the whole challenge is put. Due to it's odforce forum - I strongly doubt there will be any flame war, nevertheless let me suggest that this challenge doesn't really have anything to do with specifically Maya or Houdini or even effects- any package with sufficiently advanced scripting capabilities and ways to build up UI elements can accomplish that, if the user is granted necessary time. The real challenge would be to have some task accomplished using this or that technique (described or hinted at) and then require others to accomplish the same, using less steps/more efficient technique. hey Madjestic, I didn't want to sound like any app is better or not. The main focus is this type of EFFECT, so sit down, relax and try to show us something... and if you really, really don't like the subject, we can change it to something like: FISHES or TAMAGOTCHI CHALLENGE PEACE p.s People, I made this stuff in Maya, that's why I wrote this subject: Houdini vs Maya. But what I wanted is to see how You'll do this type of effect in Houdini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcomb Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Well i can do that in Maya too, just don't know how to do that in Houdini Looks like you had fun with it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Ah, none you guys understood my joke. Nevermind. It's SpiralMonkey's work. NOT me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Of course I did understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 Ah, none you guys understood my joke. Nevermind. It's SpiralMonkey's work. NOT me! hey Ed, don't panic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptakun Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Yo! I treated the subject a little bit jokingly rules: 1)Fish with green head start thinking about food. 2)Full stomatch has bad influence on theirr quickness and max speed. 3)When a fish hass full stomatch it thinks only about playing. 4)If there is no more food and a fish is hungry it know it will die so stops playing and goes to a cementary to wait fod death 5)Green box in an avi file is a cementary http://ptakun.tmdag.com/fish.mpg http://ptakun.tmdag.com/fish.hipnc In Hip file go to obj/geo1/popnet1/ Enjoy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 yo ptakun, it looks cool, I see that you added some additional stuff like cementary, ok but... where is the aquarium? would you like to explain for us how you made it step by step? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 it looks cool, I see that you added some additional stuff like cementary, ok but... where is the aquarium? He's thinking outside that (glass) box:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptakun Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 would you like to explain for us how you made it step by step? :whistling: He's thinking outside that (glass) box:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynbo Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 on this kind of topic does anyone know anything about the life test that Caleb Howard did a few years back? He talks about it in the Magic of Houdini book. I love to know more about this. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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