Houdini to Maya Grooming Workflow with Project Breakdown

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2 жыл бұрын

Have you found yourself trying to import grooms from houdini into maya and struggling to get maya to load them in? I had that problem and found a good workflow to get great results without the hassle.
Hopefully this video is helpful for you!
Leave your questions in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them.
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You can find some links I mentioned in the video below:
Houdini Vellum Hair Video: www.sidefx.com/tutorials/vell...
The creator of that series is named Paul and he's great!
Groombear: kwac.gumroad.com/l/groombear
This tool is a steal for how good it is. If you do hair you need to pick this up.
Zootools from Create3DCharacters: create3dcharacters.com/zoo2/
A great suite of tools at an insanely low entry cost. Keep subscribing or renew for updates, otherwise just keep what you download. A huge Maya time saver.

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@RonnieMirands Жыл бұрын

Thanks for bring that into Maya. Will help a lot of users. Maya still the main layout, animation tool and character animation tool in a lot of studios

@IvanMax33 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@vulturefilms3534 Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thank you for the awesome breakdown! I'm having some trouble with something similar right now. Do you have any advice on how to transfer the color from the geo onto the hair instead of coloring it like you did? I'm trying to export fur into C4D/octane but i can't seem to find a way to make the groom color match the uv texture of the object :(

@manucheremeh5303 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for the tutorial, it is so helpful, I am having an issue with my groom, I can't see it in my scene or in my render but it is appearing in the outliner, is there something I did wrong ?

@roxanelonghi6762 2 ай бұрын

Hi ! Really awesome tutorial , we actually searched a lot to find how to put the groom from houdini to maya . Do you append to know how make the groom gpu cache follow the character in animation ? thanks !

@nguyenbui90 Жыл бұрын

Awesome man awesomeeeeeee AhhhhhAaAAAAAAA 🎉

@lamlethanh5262 Жыл бұрын

ooh it would be so helpfull if you could shear your files ... :) thanks for you video

@user-hw1br5wk2h 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, this is a really great tutorial! But I have a question. would it be possible to get the texture color that I set up in houdini in maya?

@CosmicSandbox 2 жыл бұрын

You can transfer point attributes to Maya through Arnold. It should pick it up in the alembic. If you run into issues I know there are some results online that help you see how it works. It should just work using the arnold user data color node (I don't remember the actual name at this very moment).

@starboys4081 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Cómic, there is a way to do the same but for maya hair simulation to blender?

@CosmicSandbox Жыл бұрын

I would try exporting an alembic cache from Maya for that. I haven't done any Maya hair simulations as I really prefer using Houdini for that kind of work so I'm not certain if there are any quirks. It should however just work out.

@ViralKiller 2 жыл бұрын

Why take anything into Maya? Houdini has a full toolset

@CosmicSandbox Жыл бұрын

Sometimes productions move between apps. In this case I was rendering in Maya for final results so I had to find a solution. If I can keep it in Houdini I definitely prefer to.

@phinnaeusoconnor 2 жыл бұрын

Why would you import into Maya? what a waste of time. Just stay in Houdini!

@CosmicSandbox 2 жыл бұрын

I agree rendering in houdini is much easier and preferred. Sometimes though you need to move to another package for the pipeline and I needed to move to Maya recently. I had found very little documentation online about the process so I figured I would share my findings.