New in Houdini 18.5 Pt. 5: Scatter & Align Plus Attribute From Pieces SOPs - The New Workflow

[@junechevalier]

The Bob Ross of Houdini

[@18bovende]

Tip: to move pieces to center you can also use "Match Size" SOP inside to For-Each.

[@AlenHR]

thanks, that "attrib from pieces" is really helpful. 4:52 - you can replace "bound" and "wrangle" nodes with "match size" node.

[@KevRyanCG]

I found this tutorial as I was painstakingly trying to put ash on top of and around an object with a simulation. I was able to extract my ash pieces from a fractured cube and give them a class attribute before feeding them into the copy to points. Works incredibly well!

[@MONEYVAL9]

These are some key low level concepts that going a long way

[@panosdimi4713]

very top skill thank you i learning houdini evrithinks is helpul god bless you my frients

[@ros27922]

7:50 - I can see the snow on the mountains

[@BenniK88]

Sooo good 😊🙏🏾 as always thanks a lot for that helpful knowledge.

[@dan323609]

But how scatter sequence obj ($F) in file node?

[@feelthefears]

To move connected geo to origin i just assemble and pack the geo and set @P to 0; No need for - loops.

[@fran.fernandez]

how do u get the random leaf inside the copytopoints? its look for the class name to pick a leaf?

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

What if I need to pack and instance the leaves? I can't find a solution for getting the material on my geometry...

[@ModelWhatYouSee]

How do you add the name attribute to your original geo? Is it just a wrangle or something?

[@Entagma]

Connectivity SOP + one line of VEX. Cheers, Mo

[@ModelWhatYouSee]

@@Entagma great thanks!

[@Bizarro69]

Funny, houdini 17 and early 18 constantly crashed on my system. 18.5 is purring on the same system 🤔 What gives?

[@Entagma]

Are you running a Mac?

[@ikbo]

is solaris production ready in this release?

[@Entagma]

You decide - I personally have a hard time giving a definitive answer. Cheers, Mo

[@GaseousApe]

I've seen solaris being used on some jobs using renderman, I do think karma has a bit of catching up to do when it comes to speed.

[@ReinaldoFuregato]

IMHO... As a USD management tool. It's great! There is no better tool to visually manage USD anywhere. Not even close... But as a lighting environment, it still needs improvements and better integration with other render engines.

[@jamaljamalwaziat1002]

This is a bit advance tutorial.

[@pharbath]

slowwwww dowwwn.