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Wormie wire solver things.

Just another random thing.


Houdini - Wire solver worms from Sam Hancock on Vimeo.
This starts as some vertcal lines in SOPs that are animating upwards. The 'constraintoanimation' attribute is switched to 0 when the points go above the ground plane. This goes into the wire solver and thats about it ....

hipnc is here.

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  1. Dan WillsFebruary 7, 2010 at 6:17 PM

    Utterly absolutely awesome Sam! Houdini wires are completely amazing eh? Now we just need to figure out how to modify them during a sim ;)

    nice one!

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  2. sujilSeptember 1, 2010 at 3:37 PM

    that's gorgeous :)
    I downloaded the hipnc file and it looks like it's not working - i think because noodles.v003.$F4.bgeo needs to be loaded?

    Loving your blog btw!

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  3. SamSeptember 1, 2010 at 4:22 PM

    I think that BGEo sequence is the result of the sim, so just write it out again I think :)

    Thanks! I haven't put anything on here in aaaaaages, I hope to soon though!

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  4. UnknownSeptember 20, 2015 at 8:08 AM

    Hey, I thought this looked great, but found it didn't work in H14. Hope you don't mind, I had a go at rebuilding it and adding some more organic motion. You can find it here: http://www.tokeru.com/mayawiki/index.php?title=HoudiniDops#Wire_solver_with_multi_solver

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