Hard Gun Project is aimed to make the same tools like in Blender BoxCutter/HardOps. Houdini is a new game player in hard surface modeling world.



Here are the links you can familiarize with the BoxCutter/HardOps:
https://masterxeon1001.com/category/boxcutter/ [masterxeon1001.com]
https://masterxeon1001.com/hard-ops-intro-guide/ [masterxeon1001.com]

Download Hard Gun ToolShelves (Sop and Obj):
https://github.com/mifth/mifthtools/tree/master/houdini/toolbar/HardGun [github.com]

Features:
- No need additional assets. Houdini already has everything.
- Fast Primitives creation.
- Fast Booleans setup.
- Other additional tools which help in modeling, UVs and Substance Painter preparations.

Some tests/tuts will be here:



Additional tools which work great with Hard Gun:
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_seams_cheater
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_round_edges_vdb
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_round_edge_bevel
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_edgeflipflow
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_edit_radial_falloff
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_edit_falloff
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_bend_animatrix_plus
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_uv_wrap
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_unbevel
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_unbevel_v2

Some tests during the tools development.

Another test during hard gun improvements.

I have added Seams Cheater tool at Orbolt. It will work great with Hard Gun.

It will be available soon here:
https://www.orbolt.com/asset/mifth::mifth_seams_cheater

I have added Hard Gun SOP Tools Explanation.

Thank you so much for doing and sharing this tool.

Anyway you could make this work like Topobuild? Where its interactive and doesnt create extra Nodes?

Sorry, no. I can't.

Hi Pavel

This addon looks great. After downloading the shelves how do I install them?

Cheers
Mal

malmed
Hi Pavel

This addon looks great. After downloading the shelves how do I install them?

Cheers
Mal

In Windows my path to the shelves folder is “C:\Users\mifth\Documents\houdini17.0\toolbar”.
Just google “houdini install shelf”.

I'll be glad to get your feedback about the tools.

Thanks Pavel. Unfortunately, in spite of reading everything I can find on installing shelf files I still can't figure it out. I guess I don't understand enough about Houdini's operation to do something like this. Maybe one day…

Cheers
Mal

There was a bug. Hard_gun_sop was returning syntax error until I replaced all string

hard_gun_

to short

hg_

Maybe it was too long, I don't know.

Should i change it in my repository?
Strange, i have 2 machines and all works fine at my area.

No, you shouldn't. I've just updated to the latest Houdini's subversion release and everything starts to work as-is in your repository. Thank you, Pavel. Curve booleans and advanced bevels are cool features and working like a charm.

Super! )

Hey, it seems that it doesnt work with Houdini 18?

vidumogo
Hey, it seems that it doesnt work with Houdini 18?

I'm still using H17.5.
H18 has new python 3. But there should be no changes. Could you please show error messages?
Did you install the HG panels successfully?

Pavel Geraskin

vidumogo
Hey, it seems that it doesnt work with Houdini 18?

I'm still using H17.5.
H18 has new python 3. But there should be no changes. Could you please show error messages?
Did you install the HG panels successfully?

I did copy/paste into toolbar folder

vidumogo

Pavel Geraskin

vidumogo
Hey, it seems that it doesnt work with Houdini 18?

I'm still using H17.5.
H18 has new python 3. But there should be no changes. Could you please show error messages?
Did you install the HG panels successfully?

I did copy/paste into toolbar folder

WoooW! houdini crashed.
It looks like this is houdini's issue. Are you able to download new houdini version? May be this will help.
https://www.sidefx.com/download/daily-builds/#category-devel [www.sidefx.com]


Shelves are just xml files. Nothing special. They should not crash houdini.

Yeah, super strange, the same error with latest version too