Mayaxini

IMHO……..Absolutely brilliant!!

The poly modelling updates alone are worth the upgrade and there is so much more.

*VERY* impressed Sidefx.

Congratulations on another fantastic release.

Great answers!

I don't think I could have received better answers, you nailed them.




Thank you very much Andrew.

Hi all,

A little puzzled trying to learn the free version Houdini in some spare time, if someone can shed some light that would be great.

Simple box and a grid both at object level, shelf tool to make the box an RBD object, and shelf tool again to make the grid a static object, drops collides yahoo dynamics are alive.

Being the inquisitive sort I am, wanting to understand the finer details I dig into the nodes and then see if I could recreate them without the help of the shelf tools.

I have come unstuck with the way the paths work or to be more precise, what's going on below.

Whats the difference between these RBD Object “SOP Path” parameters as they both work but give the name of different nodes and why use one over the other?

`opinputpath(“/obj/box_object1/dopimport1”, 0)`

and

/obj/box_object1/rest1

(auto selected by clicking the floating operator choser)

Obviously the rest1 node is one node higher up the chain than the dopimport1 so isn't this a different location to point at, a little confused why they both work exactly the same.

This second path format I would have expected to be.

/obj/box_object1/dopimport1

This didn't work and the link was broken as the RBD object dissapeared

According the the help opinputpath is simple an expression call to return the full path of a node connected to a given input.

Bonus question -

why does the shelf tool that creates a static object add an attribute create node at the end with the name “doppath” as a string variable holding the path to the DOP network?

I imagine its there for a good reason but Its not sinking in yet.


Thanks for any help you can offer.