that is another program, it's called PureRef.

@@Houdini123 oh.,... i'm like, what the hell is that tab? lol thanks for clearing that up

never really tried other option than default zero. Maybe if you set the defaults of that attribute to something else, then the handle will appear at another location by default.

one way would be to create/convert said dome as horizontal rows, not quad polys; or curves in other words. Which you'd then resample by roughly your base tile width. And playing with the 'orientAlongCurve' node (upstream of the copy to point, flowing from your target splines) so as to set the correct normals orientation on the target points.

For a dome you can start with something like a sphere with regular divisions and play with the @scale attribute to make them smaller at the top.

try some of this things - selecting the rig vop node, then go inside press Esc then Enter, maybe repeat a few times. Hope it helps. I remember I sometimes too struggle to make them visible.

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uff hard to tell. Do you have all the for-loop settings same as I do ? Also these loops the sometimes need a refresh. There is a button where you can reset the cache. Worst case you can subscribe to my patreon. I have all the source files there.

check out this video and link in description. You can download the measure tool for free from my gumroad kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7igebKav5rbd58.html

use a "UV layout" node. Find and check the option - "Scale Islands to Match Their Surface Area". Uncheck all rotations and packing options if you need to.

I would like to. But that is probably going to happen in the far future.

yea, the handle is always at 0,0,0. It is sometimes annoying. You can snap the handle using the column and semi column keys or adjust the pivot in the pivot transform tab. Try to google vex expression $CEX, $CEY, $CEZ, should be helpful for you

that is very cool! thanks did not realize this was an option.

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that is a very good question. I did some tests and this should work. Let's say you have a character and some weapon. In the object where you have the character skeleton, you need to have a bone, let's say the hand. Then make a separate output and use delete joints node and delete all but the extra bone on the hand. Use object merge to import it to the weapon geo node. And now you can attach your weapon skeleton to it using fullbodyik node or rigvop. I will do a tutorial on this, but as usual, it could take some time :/. I think this could be useful to more people.

@@Houdini123 I’ll run some tests today. I’ve tried a couple of things but both messed up the characters deformation. One I was passing the weapons skeleton in as an input and then reading that in a rig vop with a parent constraint but the mesh blew up. Another technique I tried was merging the bones and mesh of the weapon into the character rig. Also didn’t work. I was thinking it was a limitation of kinefx since I couldn’t find not one even remotely similar example online.

Update on this. Merging the bones of the weapon skeleton in as well as the geometry and treating it like packed geometry give me what I’m looking for with 2 rig together. I had to refresh the IK chain sop since it caches. It’s dirty but I came up with a way to export the animations separate from each other. Will test it out later but right now I need to get space switching working then I’ll have a decent FPS Rig

I also made a tool for this. Check out houdini123.gumroad.com/l/h123pixeldensity

it actually does work with uvs

Hi, I think that was a PureRef window - www.pureref.com/

uff I don't know that. But when you turn geometry information on, you can save it as default to have it always on.