This article is way too long, so here’s the Table of Contents: Introduction Boring Math Background The Copy SOP: Varying Transforms The Copy SOP: Shape Variants Varying Animated Sequences Old School Instancing For/Each Loops Varying Materials Solaris (TBD) Wrap-up (and HIP file, and cats) Introduction Ugh, this instancing thing again. Read more…
In case you haven’t seen it already, my presentation on MOPs at Houdini Hive Worldwide has been online for about a month now. Here’s the presentation: I’d forgotten to upload the example files I built during the presentation. They’ll be included in the examples directory in the next Experimental release Read more…
SideFX Software was generous enough to ship me out to the Netherlands last week to meet my partner-in-MOPs, the inimitable Moritz Schwind, and present together a little slide show about motion graphics, Houdini, and prison hooch at End User Event 2019! The technical stuff about MOPs starts about halfway through Read more…
Update: Imre Tuske from Weta pointed out that there’s a simpler method… it turns out that you can force expressions to evaluate inside a Wrangle by wrapping them up in backticks. So if you have a channel called “do_vexpressions” to enable or disable VEXpressions, and another channel called “vexpression” that Read more…
After months of work, the MOPs toolkit for Houdini is finally open to the public! MOPs is a suite of SOP tools to help with common motion graphics tasks in Houdini. The workflow and interface should seem familiar to users of other motion graphics software packages, but it’s using Houdini-friendly Read more…