> > Houdini is an amazing software, I just don't understand why I can't > collapse nodes, I think every DCC can do that, simplify things when > necessary.
I understand exactly what you're asking but I think it goes against a fundamental principle of the Houdini UX design. It's built to be fully fully procedural and has long shaken of the reputation of only being the thing you turn to for destruction and suchlike. The are a multitude of ways to freeze and collapse your trees for a simplified view. It just doesn't mirror the Maya/Max/XSI way of doing things. Try to adapt to the Houdini design premise rather than attempting to force it to be like Maya/Max/XSI, your journey will be far smoother. But hey, maybe Houdini isn't for you., that's cool too, that are plenty of other options out there. On 22 February 2017 at 15:44, Paulo Cesar Duarte <paulocdua...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I perfectly understand the procedural approach, but over the last > years Houdini is getting better and better in interface and modeling tools, > they are trying to make a complete 3d tool set in all areas, so the idea is > use Houdini for all tasks, not only import things from Maya and make > simulations, lets say that I want modeling a complete character or vehicle > inside Houdini, I would end up with a hundred of SOP nodes. > Houdini is an amazing software, I just don't understand why I can't > collapse nodes, I think every DCC can do that, simplify things when > necessary. > > For now I'm going to lock the node and delete the network upstream when > necessary, thanks for the tip. > > 2017-02-22 7:00 GMT-03:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>: > >> You don’t really want to, it is one of those things that will challenge >> you at first and the you will see how much better is this appraoch. >> >> Regardless of my opinion, if you want to collapse in the sense of >> Softimage, lock the node and delete the network upstream.. that is >> effectively the same. >> >> jb >> >> On 20 Feb 2017, at 21:44, Paulo Cesar Duarte <paulocdua...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Olivier and Andy, nice tip. >> So there is no other way to just collapse everything? I find it's a >> little strange that I can't do a true modeling collapse, the better way I >> find is export .obj and import again. >> >> >> >> 2017-02-20 18:36 GMT-03:00 Andy Goehler <lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Be advised, this will increase your file size. A lock on a node is >>> essentially caching at that node. >>> If you must, I’d advised to collapse to subnets. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:30 PM, Olivier Jeannel <facialdel...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Ctrl click on the red (left side of the node (not the yellow) ) This >>> will lock the node like a "freeze". Everything above is computed and >>> "locked". >>> >>> 2017-02-20 22:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Cesar Duarte <paulocdua...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hey Pierre and Ed... >>>> I'm starting with Houdini too, just studying SOP for now. >>>> There is a simple way to freeze modeling like XSI? Without the need of >>>> caching geometry, just freezing or collapse? >>>> >>>> Cheers. >>>> >>>> 2017-02-10 19:48 GMT-02:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>>> A few thoughts of mine.. hope you don’t mind poking at those >>>>> suggestions… >>>>> >>>>> On 3 Feb 2017, at 20:11, Ed Schiffer <edschif...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> hi Tim >>>>> I am just starting in Houdini as well and would be interested in a XSI >>>>> Shelf tools. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Good idea >>>>> >>>>> for these particular issues you mentioned, you could match the >>>>> Translate, Rotate, Scale and or Pivot using the icons on the right of >>>>> these >>>>> parameters. very useful! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You have matching of transformations but may be I could put together a >>>>> few Softimage friendly ones too… >>>>> >>>>> and on the Modify shelft tab you have the Center Pivot button as well. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You may not want that, I rather suggest you install qLib and you will >>>>> have a bunch of presets installed on normal translation nodes that allow >>>>> you to do the centroid quickly, also placing in the center of the world, >>>>> on >>>>> the floor, etc... >>>>> >>>>> also, under the Pre-Transform dropdown at the top of the Transforms >>>>> tab, you have Clean Transforms/Translate/Rotate/Scale with for my >>>>> understanding are basic as the Freeze in XSI. when you Extract these you >>>>> get your global transforms and when you Reset them you'd be setting the >>>>> Pre-Transforms back to zero… >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The pretransforms are like XSI neutral pose >>>>> >>>>> Regarding Freeze… that is one of the things you may not want to >>>>> inherit in Houdini. Although at first made sense to me once I got a bit >>>>> more under the bonnet it was obvious that you can do it without having to >>>>> rely on freezing. Either by saving to disk, storing the resulting network >>>>> on the scene or other means. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> hope that makes sense, I thought it to be very straightforward. >>>>> Houdini is very rewarding to learn, hope you enjoy. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> :-) >>>>> jb >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> cheers >>>>> >>>>> On 3 February 2017 at 15:12, Tim Bolland <tim_boll...@hotmail.co.uk> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey, I'm currently taking a good look at Houdini as an application >>>>>> moving forward and I'm wondering if anyone has or uses any custom scripts >>>>>> to mimic some of the more used functions of Softimage. I'm thinking of >>>>>> things such as "Match All Transforms" and "Move Center to Vertices". >>>>>> General workflow commands you realise you miss when you jump into new >>>>>> software, I can imagine a script savvy guy out there must have whipped >>>>>> up custom shelf as soon as the program opened <OutlookEmoji-😉.png>. >>>>>> Any information would be hugely appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Tim >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------ >>>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.aut >>>>>> odesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> www.edschiffer.com >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------ >>>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> paulo-duarte.com >>>> >>>> ------ >>>> Softimage Mailing List. >>>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>>> >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------ >>> Softimage Mailing List. >>> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >>> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> paulo-duarte.com >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com >> with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> > > > > -- > paulo-duarte.com > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >
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