Script: Bake Camera

January 5, 2024
Script: Bake Camera

import hou selectedNode = hou.selectedNodes()[0] bakingNode = hou.node(‘/obj’).createNode(‘cam’, selectedNode.name() + ‘_bake’) hou.setFrame(int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[0])) for f in range(int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[0]), int(hou.playbar.playbackRange()[1])+1): hou.setFrame(f) bakingNode.setWorldTransform(selectedNode.worldTransform()) bakingNode.parm(“tx”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“tx”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“ty”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“ty”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“tz”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“tz”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“rx”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“rx”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“ry”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“ry”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(“rz”).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(bakingNode.parm(“rz”).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘focal’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘focal’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘aperture’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘aperture’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘near’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘near’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘far’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘far’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘resx’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘resx’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘resy’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘resy’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘winsizex’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘winsizex’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘winsizey’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘winsizey’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘shutter’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘shutter’).eval())) bakingNode.parm(‘aspect’).setKeyframe(hou.Keyframe(selectedNode.parm(‘aspect’).eval()))

VEX: Delete Isolated Points

September 15, 2022

int pts[] = nearpoints(0, @P, chf(“radius”),2);if (len(pts)==1){removepoint(0,@ptnum);}

Houdini: Carve Curve to Length

July 15, 2022

Out of the box the carve SOP will carve a curve as a percentage or parametric value along the curve’s length. This method will carve to a specified length (with some tolerance). Measure perimeter Promote perimeter to points In a wrangle at this vex: f@_perimpercent = chf(“length”)/f@perimeter; In the carve SOP add this script: 1-point(0, … Read More

Awards // D&AD // Skrillex – Butterflies

May 30, 2022
Awards // D&AD // Skrillex – Butterflies

Congratulations to the team at Electric Theatre for winning a D&AD Wood pencil for Skrillex – Butterflies https://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/2022/235437/skrillex-butterflies/

Awards // Burberry Festive

May 1, 2021
Awards // Burberry Festive

Burberry Festive has garnered some favourable reviews over recent months with it hitting the top spot on Televisual’s 2021 Commercials 30 Survey shortly followed by winning a Silver at the CLIO Awards in the Craft Visual Effects category. Mad props to all those who worked on it. It came out good. https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-takes-home-silver-at-the-clio-awards https://www.moving-picture.com/news/burberry-and-jean-clement-soret-hit-number-1-in-televisuals-2021-commercials-30-survey

VEX: Point Pitch, Yaw, Roll

June 17, 2020

matrix3 m = maketransform(@N,@up);@orient = quaternion(m); vector4 pitch = quaternion({1,0,0}ch(‘pitch’)); vector4 yaw = quaternion({0,1,0}ch(‘yaw’));vector4 roll = quaternion({0,0,1}*ch(‘roll’)); @orient = qmultiply(@orient, pitch);@orient = qmultiply(@orient, yaw);@orient = qmultiply(@orient, roll);

VEX: Rotation Around Axis

May 19, 2020

float angle = chf(“angle”); vector4 rot = quaternion(radians(angle), {1,0,0}); @N=qrotate(rot, @N);

Python: Phyllotaxis

May 14, 2020

node = hou.pwd() geo = node.geometry() # Add code to modify contents of geo. # Use drop down menu to select examples. from math import radians, sqrt, sin, cos numpoints = 200 angle = 137.508 cval = 0.2 for i in range(numpoints): theta = radians (i * angle) x = cval * sqrt(i) * cos(theta) … Read More