max rose

There’s no reason to move the nodes or points really, it’s all about sticking with the Houdini ecosystem. Since we’re working with points, it basically means we can do whatever we want, add any attribute we want, create any Component we can think of and keep it modular. We can even save out the entire rig (skeleton, geometry, control rig, constraints) as a single piece of geometry.

APEX being fully homogenous with Houdini’s methods of point manipulation basically makes this system endlessly extendable, and that includes updating your rig directly in the viewport within viewer states.

I've been doing this for a current project, and I'll admit the current method of setting it up is weird. Thing is, the example file actually does have everything in it that you need to figure it out. The aforementioned "weirdness" comes from updating the channel prims, extracting controls, etc.

In essence, what you are doing is extracting the controls you want retargeted from your rig, applying the kinefx retargeting workflow, then using those driven channels to update the channels (translation, rotation, scale) of the controls in your rig.

Using this vid- >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHPpztrZtyw&ab_channel=Houdini [www.youtube.com]

...along with the example file, all the info you need is there. I'll see if I can get around to making a video at some point.

Hey everybody, I just finished a livestream on how to take the Biped Rig from my last tutorial and turn it into a reusable HDA.

Hope you find it useful! -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWR7wSjGG2U&t=267s&ab_channel=maxrose [www.youtube.com]