New Mixamo to Houdini tutorial

Robert.Magee

We have a new lesson for you to learn how to bring mocap animation into Houdini from the Mixamo.com website and add a Cloth simulation

- http://bit.ly/Z8tYnD

This should answer some of your questions regarding the size of the character when it is imported into Houdini and includes strategies for caching out sequences and prepping your files for rendering. It also includes the setup of a simple skirt as a cloth sim in Houdini.

Robert

BananaHead

many many thanks for this!
i am watching it right now! really a great job.

hopefully i can adopt this techniques on an imported cloth-object...

Anais

Big thanks, Robert. This will come in very handy for all contestants!

ChewyPixels

Awesome work, Robert! Looking forward to watching this once I get to that stage on my character.

Huge thanks!

-Chewy

Edrice

This is great!

Mimiws

i have watched it. its a big help thank you

BananaHead

hi,
i can't merge the takes... if i try to drag one take over another, a little cross appears at the cursor and nothing happens...
maybe someone knows my problem and the solution.

many thanks in advance

Guedin

Thanks a lot for this tuto ! It's gonna be really useful

Dryulya

Thank you Robert. The lesson is very useful and just in time. Crafted a great job for us.

RoxyPox

Super helpful! Beats trying to figure this out on my own! Thanks!

alphajayel

Anyone here has a tutorial for displacement maps+normal maps and skin shading? Thanks a bunch!!!

jayson

I would agree with alphajayel. I had only heard of Houdini untill this contest, but here is my two cents. More of a quick reference sheet. Hope it helps. I figured out the Bump map and displace but if anyone can sort out how to use normals whether tangent, object or camera space it would be much appreciated as my normals were comprised of a combined normal and bump map and my displace maps can't bebaked at the same quality

jayson

..cont from above. It sets up Diffuse and color maps as well as Intensity multipliers and a Bump map. Here is the result:

jayson

@alphajayel: Quick update to the normals/displacement question. Object space normals will work.

Robert.Magee

The mantra surface material has normal maps and displacement maps built into it. You should be able to texture map using that material (from the material palette) instead of building up materials in vows. Have you tried mantra surface?

jayson

Thanks Robert. Ya I had found that this weekend (the mantra surface).

nacertag

wanna know how to drive a high res mash with the simulated low res mesh in houdini i know how to do it in max or maya but no clue about how its done in houdini any help will be appreciated
update:i just did not pay attention to the video now i know how to do it thanks:)

Stiffler

Robert, your tutorials and help have been amazing. I'm not familiar with Houdini (maya/zbrush user) so, I greatly appreciate your time.
I have a lot of detail transparency in my costume (lace) that I'd like to render with a normal map to save poly budget. In Maya I'd use an alpha map and tangent space normals for details. Is this sort of thing possible (i'm sure it is) in Mantra or should I rethink my approach?
Thanks again for your extra effort helping with this contest!
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