Houdini Tips & Tricks | Object along a path in SOP Network

Here I share small tips to animate an object along a curve in SOP network without using CHOPs.
Hope this will help you.
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[@shahabvejdanian3528]

very simple and straight to the point! thank you!

[@KevRyanCG]

Nice one, I had to take this a little further to get the eular rotations, but I managed it by creating a matrix with N and an up vector, and then used the cracktransform to get it from my single point. I wanted to be able to attach a camera to it!

[@josefh8782]

This was a great tip thanks, Ive found the Follow Path contraint to be limited for bringing into a SOP network (to my knowledge). Thanks

[@anroidanicver6783]

Super short. Super helpful.

[@DGalious]

can not find any of these nodes in Houdini 18 but thanks for the tutorial anyway!

[@yonlaycabrera4431]

Thank you so much. Very helpful.

[@ChrisC1377]

Hi Chetal, may I ask you what is the "down" you're using in place of the up attribute ? Is it store in an other place in the scene ? Thanks for your all good work, very helpful, as always

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

thank U very much for quick tip

[@3dtrip870]

So Helpful!

[@CombatFXZone]

Thank you!

[@photoindra]

To have motion blur on planes I think you need to switch off transfer of "v" attribute on "copy to points". Also is there a "down" attribute? I always thought that there is just "up" :) Question: is there any benefit of this method vs just the shelf "Animation - Follow Path" tool?

[@sowugamers52]

Thank you very much Bro

[@antoniopepe]

This is the way :) ... and me too workflow, there are some other SOP way ? thanks

[@aujak]

Thank you. ^_^

[@bhuvanbelliappa1550]

Thanks

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

how we can bend object along curve for example if I want to use a little bit long tube instead of your paper plane and that tube should bend along curve on turning points

[@ChetalGazdarVFX]

you can use "pathdeform".. in that you have to required geometry and curve.. and play with "offset position using" parameter and may be need to change Geometry alignment in Capture Align tab.

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

@@ChetalGazdarVFX ❤️

[@nephila__]

How would I reveal the path line over time as the paper plane flies over it? 🤔

[@Helloluxx]

try the carve node using cut on the original curve, then use a sweep.

[@markaguilar5469]

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