Chris Rydalch

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About Me

Member of R&D team at SideFX, working to improve Solaris and Karma workflows in Houdini. Spent the previous 10+ years in FX, crowds, animation, character fx, and pipeline departments for feature animation.
EXPERTISE
Technical Director
INDUSTRY
Film/TV

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LOCATION
Kansas, United States

Houdini Skills

Availability

Not Specified

My Badges

SideFX Staff
Since Sep 2007

My Tutorials

obj-image Beginner
Creating USD Assets with Component Builder
obj-image Quick Tips
Keyframe Functions, Extrapolations, and Box Handles
obj-image Intermediate
IFD Workflow Basics
obj-image Beginner
Mantra Light Instancing Basics

My Talks

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Creating USD Assets with Component Builder
obj-image HIVE
Composing Materials With USD and Solaris

Recent Forum Posts

How to rename/remove/reparent prims with Python? Nov. 20, 2024, 9:21 a.m.

That node is currently implemented in Python, you can look inside and learn from it. There are also unit tests on the OpenUSD GitHub repo, that are written in Python that use Sdf Changeblocks and do some of these same editing operations.

Glass Absorption Oct. 21, 2024, 3:24 p.m.

There was some documentation issues where Transmission Roughness was still marked as not supported (fixed in tomorrow's cut), but everything except Transmission Scatter and Transmission Scatter Anisotropy are supported by Karma in Houdini 20.5.

Karma XPU - MaterialX carpaint? Oct. 18, 2024, 2:08 p.m.



Hope this is helpful!