Sam Hodak

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Student of XR Technical Art; Software Developer by day

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Houdini Engine

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Recent Forum Posts

Performance Question regarding Skinned Geo Animation 2024年11月7日12:12

I will give that a try, and thank you for the general tip as well Tanto!

Performance Question regarding Skinned Geo Animation 2024年11月7日10:56

Hey everybody,

If I have some input geo with a skeleton, and then I procedurally add a bunch of things to it (shells, greebles, etc), should I apply the animation before the new geo is created, or after?

Basically Geo A1 has 1,000 vertices and I animate these, and then later in the chain it's Geo A2, animated and with 10,000 vertices. Or geo A1 has 10,000 vertices before it's animated.

In general, is there a handy way to measure the performance of things like this in Houdini?

Regards,
slh

Shell Texturing with Alpha from Geometry 2024年10月25日2:39

For those interested, I got an answer on Discord:

USD has different names for common attributes
Cd is called displayColor, for example
i believe Alpha is displayOpacity
without the '@'

So using `displayOpacity` as the value in `Geomprop` allowed the material to use the correct opacity value, whereas Alpha, which didn't exist in the context, must have defaulted to 0.