Hey Max! Thank you for taking the time to make these tutorials. If I take a skeleton from an animated mesh from cascadeur, will I be able to use that skeleton and bind it to a different character mesh in houdini? Then would I be able to use APEX to set up a rig for that newly created mesh? Let me know if that question made sense. And thanks again for these tutorials.
A better approach would be to create a skeleton and bind your character mesh first, using something like Mixamo or Accurig. Then, using KineFx retarget your character's skeleton to the cascadeur animated skeleton. What's awesome is that you can use this approach with an APEX rigged character, so all of your controls will be driven by the Cascadeur animation. Check out this video from H20 HIVE --> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2bjPTvkpNC0.htmlsi=ERpwqicRvS1hE6F6&t=1855
This series of Apex tutorials are so valuable, Thanks for this. A quick tip for the wrangle nodes, can press ctrl + (+ or -) in the editor to change the font size.
Hi max rose, Thanks for your tutorials. I encountered a problem now. I can't deform the shape use rigpose like you(14:42), all translate when I translate a point(example the top point), and all rotate when I rotate a point. Do you know the cause? the version is 20.0.547
You mean the whole joint chain moves no matter what joint you translate? Not sure without looking at it. Often times when something weird like this happens, just backtrack - recreate nodes, setups, joint chains, and usually the problem fixes itself.
Thanks for your reply. Not the whole joint chain move, it's the mesh of sweep, the joint chain is ok. The mesh of bottom can't stay there when I rotate the top point of rigpose. I checked it many times. I am confused.
Yeah this series has been great. The only issue I came across so far is that the settings on the sweep node to create the proxy geo needed to be really specific otherwise the jointcapturebiharmonic node would error out. This is most likely due to slightly differing versions of Houdini, because I copied the exact same numbers Max used, but it didn't work at first. It required some experimentation in both the radius field (1.784) as well as the scale ramp (1.242). In any case, I eventually got it to match, and maybe it doesn't need to be so perfect anyways once the jointcapturepaint nodes are added and smoothed. That said, I'd definitely be curious to see how rigging a full realistic biped from scratch would compare to this simple robot, especially in Houdini 20.5, since it seems some of the workflow has changed and I can't get all these Houdini 20 techniques to carry over to the newest version.
Hey Max thanks for the tutorial, but for some reason the attribtransfer is not working @16:24, it is deforming the topring when connected to bonedeform.
A wonderful lesson can I ask you how to implement the work of capturing a curve in APEX, like there are a lot of bones around the mouth, but in order not to control each bone from the sets, I make a nurbs curve and use RIGVOP to control the entire curve around the mouth, but I have only a few control points how to transfer control to APEX I do not know or tried to do something similar with wiredeform, but I also don't know how to make friends with APEX
I greatly enjoy how clean the audio in your vids is. I spotted an older vid of yours in which you make some music, so maybe that is why you know how to sound nice. Much easier to focus onto the technical workflow you show that way. I always die internally when encountering tutorials on YT that are full of mouth clicky noises and a signal to noise ratio of HELL with a maximum volume that is so low that I wonder just what is wrong with people.... anyway. xD You present the technical content in a clean, effect way also which is great. Happy new year!
Max. You simply rock. This is so awesome. Is it possible to import a pre-skinned character via fbx (just joint-definition and geo with weights) into Houdini without getting any limitations in terms of the KineFX/APEX workflow or would you recommend creating the skincluster and joints always in Houdini? Thank you so much again for this excellent tutorial!
Great series I love it, its exactly what I need for my owl creature! Quick tip, this Get_center_Line subnetwork can be done in one node called Match Size. It scales and even transforms whatever you put in there to the reference object (harmonica spine in this case).
This series is brilliant, thank you so much Max! I'm a longtime Maya user who's just now getting into Houdini. I can keep up, but only barely haha! How are you hiding the rest of the character and rig when working on the spine part of the node-graph? It looks similiar to what "Isolate select" would do in Maya, but I don't know how to achieve it in Houdini. I keep seeing all of the character in the viewport, even when moving the display flag around down the "null4" graph. Thanks again!
Awesome glad you enjoyed it! 10+ years in Maya myself. Houdini's the future my friend :D My guess is maybe in the "split" node? Hard to tell without looking at your file, but you might have separated the pieces properly. If you have separated them, make sure the last node of the chain is activated by pressing "R" on the keyboard. There's another technique I'm using a lot (which I forgot to mention), and that's to select a node and press "E". This will template the node, so that you can still it's geo while working somewhere else.
Thanks for getting back to me! Eventually found that It was a viewport setting that was defaulted to "Ghost Other Objects", switching to "Hide Other Objects" gave me the same display results as you :)@@maxrose8845
My first guess would be you need to turn on hide other objects in the top right of the scene view if you have other geo nodes displayed in the root obj context
