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Houdini Hip File Manager v1.0

Description, setup and how to use is posted below.

Houdini Hip File Manager v1.0

This is a super handy panel in Houdini that allows you to open your hip files latest version with just one click!

Important! You must have versions like this format "_v01". For now. If you have any other and its not working for you, let me know ill add it!

Simple setup:

1. Just move the file to you "documents/houdini ***/python panels" location, if there is no folder "python p...

How to Improve Art Skills – Photography

It’s simple—grab a camera or your smartphone and go for a walk, looking for interesting angles and lighting. What’s the benefit of this? Let’s break it down.

Composition

When you take photos often, you start choosing angles and positioning objects within your fram...

Wtf are these balls?

Let me explain what are those balls you saw in previous my posts.

Shortly - Its a Super Useful Technique to Improve Creative Skills!

How it works? Just draw a concrete sphere on your photo!

I really love this practice—simple and useful. All you need is a phone and a cheap $5–10 stylus for you smartphone. Then, during lunch breaks or walks...

How to improve Art skills?

First of all. Everyone has their own approach, it's all individual, and my way might not work for others. You need to find your own source of imagination and inspiration, but I hope my methods will point you in the right direction.

Drawing

Of course its Top 1 and the mos...

Houdini Render Manager v1.2 zip

Description is in the post below.

Houdini Render Manager v1.2

Huge update!

• Added "Add Hip" button which opens a separate window that allow you to choose a hip and then scan it for Rop nodes and choose multiple, and use it for main manager tool, so no need to even open Houdini at all now!

• New layout buttons.

  Yes its for paid members, zip file posted above in next post, sorry but for $5 its very small fee for that w...

  2025-01-21 11:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Discord Channel is here!

After some tests chats here decided to make a Discord channel which is of course much more useful with tons of features then here.

So here you go! Welcome!

I just made it and still working on guides, channels, names, groups and other visual stuff. So let me know what you thing i should add there, any requests are welcomed! Send it there in General chat!

See you there!

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Quickly add Hip Paths and Rop nodes to Houdini Render Manager Tool

I made an easy way to add rop nodes right from houdini to Houdini Render Manager for you. Its a Python Panel in the Houdini which allows you to add it easy. No need to copy the hip path or rop path manually! But still need to open houdini to do this, just when you finish your work dont forget to add it just in case and thats it!

IMPORTANT!

To make it work run exe of the Houdini Ren...

Houdini Batch Render Tool v1.1 zip

Here is the file to download.

Description what fixed and what was added is below.

Let me know if there is any bugs, or if you have requests, here in comments or direct messages!

Houdini Batch Render Tool v1.1

• Added progress bar with "Cancel Render" button.

  Make sure you Turn on the check box 'Print Command Line to Console' in USD ROP node in Houdini, in Statistic Tab, to make the progress bar work. Otherwise you see  'Frames disabled, see Help to turn it on!' text and no frames or progress will show, but the render will still go fine.

  Also keep in mind that this checkbox is ...

  2025-01-18 03:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Simple Houdini Batch Render Tool Zip

Here is the zip file!

Descriptions and preview are below!

Enjoy!

Simple Houdini Batch Render Tool

I just made something cool and super useful!
Its a Houdini Batch Render, simply its like a bat file but in this cool dark interface, and works super simple without any difficult setups like deadline, hqueue, and others. You can render as many hip files as you want and rop nodes without opening houdini, fill all rows, hit render and go for a walk/sleep/lunch and it will render all hips and r...

Focus on Creative Skills, Not Technical Ones!

So damn tired of these type of questions.

What software should i learn? Where did you do this? How to learn it? Which one is better?

Honestly, none of them is to choose! Back in the day, I wasted a lot of time on this and can confidently say that it was almost entirely useless. I learned way too many programs: starting with crappy 3ds Max, then Softimage (my first love), Maya, Houdi...

Welcome! My CG Kungfu Bro.

Im so glad to see you here and happy to introduce my new channel!

And as a first post and as a gift for you i have something really cool for you, its a huge notion page with all my tips and tricks about Houdini and tools and scripts, and some other software workflows and tips but mostly Houdini, that i collected for many years! Its free for everyone, some of you probably seen it already....