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What about USGS data? This video https://vimeo.com/322225534 (at about 1 hour and 3 minute in) spends a few minutes explaining in general terms how to download and extract terrain data from the USGS...

Check out the Houdini 17 What's New video - fluids are showcased starting at 5:57, but it's worth watching the whole video just to see what's available out of the box. Link:...

Try Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) - it's free - I've used it in the past for flow-charting and mind-maps and its pretty good.

Here's the link: http://vue.tufts.edu/

Summary:
"The...

It's worth have a look at this video: http://www.entagma.com/building-your-own-houdini-workstation/

Despite the title it's equally applicable to LW users.

Not to rain on your parade guys, but that interview was from way back in 2003 (i.e. 15 years ago) and if you look at his web site and his LinkedIn page there is not a single mention of, or links to,...

I use the free version of Davinci Resolve all the time for my business activities and have yet to hit any significant limitations. It's under constant development by BlackMagic.

You will find this...

Same for me!

The fireflies mean I can't use LW2018.0.2 for any serious production work. I've ended up wasting too much time trying out various tricks to get rid of the fireflies, but with little...

Don't anti-alias the Depth pass!

If possible, render the Depth pass out at a higher resolution (e.g. x2, or x4) and scale it down in the compositing application (that is, if the comp application...

You can download a free version of Black Magic's Davinci Resolve video editing/colour-correction software (the free version is limited to rendering out at HD resolution and a few other high-end...

Hi there,

I've just reported a very nasty UI bug in Layout, which is present in both LW2015.3 and LW2018.0.01 and it could potentially cause you to loose a lot of work.

This bug may have been...

Having been one of many on this forum who have vented their anger and frustration over the development hiatus and lack of communication on the part of NT, I think that it is only fair to step up to...

Just testing out the PBR aspects and spotted an issue with refraction through transparent objects...

Created a cube and set the transparency to 100% with IR of 1.5 and created a spotlight with a...

It would not be a question of cost that would make me very reluctant to upgrade to LW Next and devote yet more time and effort getting up to speed with it. Rather, it is because there are several...

Well, I am afraid that the LWDG have lost me as a customer, I've now invested my money in both Houdini Indie and Redshift licenses and I am busy getting up to speed with using both for future...

Take a look at the layout, quality and scope of the Houdini HDK documentation (https://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk/index.html) and compare it to the long running lackluster LW SDK effort and weep.

This may have been mentioned before, but Jennifer Hachigian shows how she rigged a set of 8 tentacles using spline control and then animated them using just 4 master nulls in this SIGGRAPH 2013 video...

Lol

Agreed. Communication between Modeler and Layout via the Hub is flaky and totally unreliable.

I've witnessed many times over many years and many versions of LW the lack of solid communication via...

Check out GarageFarm (https://garagefarm.net/). I've always used them when I have a big LW render job - they are fast, good value for money and have excellent live online support.

Really? Apart from modelling the snake, you could set up that whole rig in under 5 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_rFztpHYLc&t=840s

Wishing your wife a speedy recovery. It must be a huge weight off your mind that the operation went so well. My thoughts are with you both.

Hey guys,

Thank you all for some really inspiring and interesting solutions to the problem - very much appreciate all the time and effort you have spent on this!

Cheers,
Peter

Thanks for that interesting suggestion lertola2 - I'll investigate further.

It is pretty ridiculous that you can't do this fairly simple/obvious exercise within LW.

I might end up having to do...

Hi folks,

I am sure that there's a simple nodal solution to this problem, but I am just not seeing it.

I have (for example) a 20 x 20 array of separate square polygons and I have a set of 400...