zoki

hi
do you have houdini magic book?
there is example of animating dragonfly with chops-chanells this is the way to do it!
z

hi
I found out this last week and I also switched from maya
go to render tab of your geometry dont subdivide it in sop leave low cage!
and change render geometry as is - to render polygons as subdivision surf.
this will do the trick and all your renders will be smooth as babys bottom ops:

and to top it maya cant do that and max neither! mantra na renderman can, and I believe (if I am not mistaking it happens in a render stage )

but of course I keep subd sop in just for preview and for smooothing capture etc…….

hi
star fish rendered and modeled +rigged in Houdini
check out wip for it also here
http://odforce.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=4448 [odforce.net]