Nick Taylor

Head of 3D @ ManvsMachine

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A little while ago @sidefx created a "Partners" page and Aelib (https://t.co/hhLc0Z1udL) was given a mention. This has spurred me on to give the toolkit a cleanup as it's been ticking along for the past year or so with only minor tweaks. Here is an overview of the improvements:

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New Aelib release: H20.5 Support (and H20 too, was a bit slow on this one!), fixes for SVG Import/Export, and small updates to a number of other HDAs: https://t.co/SVAL9lD1rX

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Blog Post: Localising HDA libraries to help Houdini launch faster https://t.co/J45SVBAPtA

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@danchez_cgi Update on the dev branch: https://t.co/MZEztmsEvv

May still be some issues but it is loading simple SVGs now

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@danchez_cgi Been slow on this as we only moved to H20 recently! Have just merged the update: https://t.co/utK7DA5ZrK

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@danchez_cgi Ah you're right - looks like the underlying svg.path python lib may have changed. Will investigate...

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@rogierdeboeve Great work! This appeared on my feed and I thought the name was familiar - an Evokeone throwback

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After a very long period without updates I've been able to improve few older nodes as well, including:
- Attrib Transfer By UV
- Curve Duplicator
- Containment
- Activation Solver
- Propagation Solver

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A number of HDAs which were previously Patreon-only are now freely available in Aelib.

Full list here: https://t.co/i9GuUp6VEx

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New blog post: https://t.co/q8J39TV3Oj

An overview of the RBD Bullet Solver SOP and general SOP RBD workflow. hip file included with 8 examples

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@yader_de Nice - your method is definitely simpler here. Always 5 different ways to do something in Houdini!

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New blog post - using custom captures in KineFX to solve an interesting edge case: https://t.co/8OtfXyc3sL

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@thecgwiki Thanks Matt. I really enjoyed your recent talk on KineFX - so many great tips!

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Object Roller

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2023 Already! A few recent hips on the Patreon https://t.co/oaUnNQy66y :
- Dithering algorithms
- Shape Aggregation
- Ising Model / Random Spinnners
- Object Roller HDA
- Open Road

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Ising / Random Spinners

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@legomyrstan @motionoperators MOPs definitely has similar VEX going on (referenced some of it for the local/global modes) but it's spread across multiple SOPs and intertwined with the full transformation system.

I love MOPs and use it occasionally but rewiring my brain to go 'copy to points' first is hard!

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An 'Attribute Adjust Orient' HDA I've been working up recently. Handles those qmultiply()s and slerp()s so you don't have to!

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