Mads Ringdal

Thanks for the comment and suggestion, maybe one day if i find the time
The tutorial series and content already available here (and elsewhere) is very helpful though and will get you to a place where you can start trying different ideas for yourself and just explore. I think it becomes a fun activity soon enough but there is a time investment there for sure as with learning anything.

Hello, heres a video of a rig im working on for a personal project. Its missing blendshapes and some other things i hope to add later, but most of the main functions are more or less working now i think. Suggestions or critiques are welcome of course.

I am having piles of fun messing around in Apex and i recommend anyone who is still on the fence to dive in and start using it. The rigs evaluate very fast and its amazing how flexible the system can be, a huge testament to the sidefx devs!

https://vimeo.com/1047256007 [vimeo.com]

Hello, I am trying to set up some various hotkeys to help me when animating, but I am not able to figure out how to point to the Apex rig controls and their transforms. My old ways of using hou.setSelected does not seem to be the right way with Apex rigs or I am doing something wrong somewhere.

While the Animate state is active, I am trying to select a rig-control by its name. So pressing the hotkey for example selects a control called "cog".

I am also curious how to set their transform values through python, like setting the "cog/ty" value to 0 on frame 47.

I hope someone here can guide me in the right direction. Thank you!