The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
HMP Contest - Guedin
polycounter lvl 11
Hi guys ! I decided to join the fun. I'll probably go with the design of an old character I never found time to finish. It's a kind of bully / yakuza guy 
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I'm trying to do some test before, and the first issue I encounter seems to be a scale issue.
I downloaded the basemesh with a simple animation from the mixamo website, in the fbx format. I followed the workflow mixamo/houdini found on the mixamo website and here's the result. It seems like the mesh is way too big in the viewport, compared to the grid. I assume my character is too big in Houdini because I got some strong lighting artifacts. Some of you guys did encounter this issue too ?
Thanks again
Edit > Preferences > Hip File Options > Unit Length.
I got another question though :
I followed the masterclass for cloth which can be found here : http://vimeo.com/58110566 and there's is something that I would love to have some explanation.
Around 36'. it is shown how to paint influence for stiffness and damping value for the clothing, but I really have some hard time to reproduce this.
Basically, I don't understand where exactly the create attribute and paint nodes need to be placed, and how configuring its so the software know that what I'm painting is values for my stiffness and damping.
Thanks again for the help, it's a great community here !
Here's some test I did so far in houdini, with the simple human base mesh from mixamo :
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i checked your website and man you got some serious work.and im glad to c people with your skill in this competition
good luck:thumbup:
I'm on holidays this week and I don't have the file with me but I would say around 20k polies for the shirt simulated. I put a subdive node after the cloth simulation nodes to smooth the mesh
If you're going to paint attributes you need to do so *BEFORE* the node that is used by the DOPs network.
So lets say you create a simple grid. Go into the Geometry node and You'll see a singel Grid SOP. Now go to the shelf and make it a Cloth Object. Go back into the Geometry node and notice how the SOP network has been changed? I believe the start of the change is a Convert node (labeled "convert to cloth" or something like that). You'll probably want to put your custom attributes *before* that one.
The DOP's network is going to pull data from the nodes labeled something like "SIMULATION", "ANIMATION" and "REST". You can confirm this by going into the DOPs network, click on the Cloth object node and look at the Initial Geometry, Rest Geometry, and Animation Geometry. Those should point to the SOP nodes in your Geometry object.
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There's a lot of thing to fix, it seems I broke the walking animation somehow since he seems to pop in some places. Also the cloth seems to crazy for now, especially the vest. Also don't pay attention to the cloth and body penetration. It's due to the displacement .I'll try to hide the geometry beneath the cloth for my final render
Hope you'll like it
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Thanks so much for the kind words
I'm trying to do some cloth simulation but I've got some major issues so far. Right now my cloth looks weird to me. As it seen at the beginning of the video, the cloth tend to wrap around the arms of the character and making it looks kinda bad in my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3YYxRCCZUs&feature=youtu.be
The other thing is when the character is moving, the cloth tend to flicker a lot, like if there was wind or something. But I didn't add any forces in the scene. It's obvious around the collar for exemple. This issue really annoy me since I tried for 2 days now to find why is this happening but didn't find anything and have no clue where to look at.
my son was waching this by me and said is this one megaminde i told him why he said becaus he has a big head .thought it was funny and hes 4 by the way
So here's some shots. I'll probably fix the cloth manually, no time to launch a new sim again
How did you handle the double-sided cloth?
-Chewy
@Senor_Chewy : I used the cloth proxy thing. The piece of cloth simulated is one sided but drive a higher resolution, with UVs done, and with thickness
About rendering, actually it's just basic stuff so far I guess. The thing is, if you want to have less noise in your picture, don't forget to add more sampling in the light shadows parameters, especially if it's soft shadows. But keep in my mind it gonna increase your rendering time, which can be alright for a still, but not manageable for rendering a video
cant wait to so your finale and what did you decide about the hair are you gonna use the modeled hair or ytry and simulate it
Finally, I did it. Here's my final video, I hope you'll enjoy it
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-Chewy
Here are the big pictures of this guy :