Nick Taylor

A little while ago @sidefx created a "Partners" page and Aelib (github.com/Aeoll/Aelib) was given a mention. This has spurred me on to give the toolkit a cleanup as it's been ticking along for the past year or so with only minor tweaks. Here is an overview of the improvements:

New Aelib release: H20.5 Support (and H20 too, was a bit slow on this one!), fixes for SVG Import/Export, and small updates to a number of other HDAs: github.com/Aeoll/Aelib/re…

Blog Post: Localising HDA libraries to help Houdini launch faster nicholas-taylor.com/blog/localisin…

@danchez_cgi Update on the dev branch: github.com/Aeoll/Aelib/tr… May still be some issues but it is loading simple SVGs now

@danchez_cgi Been slow on this as we only moved to H20 recently! Have just merged the update: github.com/Aeoll/Aelib/tr…

anybody got Aelib SVG import working on houdini 20.0.724 py 3.10? i downloaded latest aelib with py 3.10. but still get the traceback error

@danchez_cgi Ah you're right - looks like the underlying svg.path python lib may have changed. Will investigate...

@_Nick_Taylor cool, thanks, but probably needs some work still, gives me "invalid path segment - skipping" message, tried with some super simple svg file too

@rogierdeboeve Great work! This appeared on my feed and I thought the name was familiar - an Evokeone throwback

Happy to finally release a new portfolio after several years of procrastination! 😅🚀 rogierdeboeve.com #threejs #webgl #greensock #creativecoding

After a very long period without updates I've been able to improve few older nodes as well, including: - Attrib Transfer By UV - Curve Duplicator - Containment - Activation Solver - Propagation Solver

A number of HDAs which were previously Patreon-only are now freely available in Aelib. Full list here: github.com/Aeoll/Aelib/co…

New blog post: nicholas-taylor.com/blog/houdini-b… An overview of the RBD Bullet Solver SOP and general SOP RBD workflow. hip file included with 8 examples

@yader_de Nice - your method is definitely simpler here. Always 5 different ways to do something in Houdini!

@_Nick_Taylor A good use case for the Attribute Fill, thanks a bunch for the article! How about hacking/transforming the spiral resulting in the edges being distant enough, so the regular capture would work? Here's a file with some alterations (hope you don't mind) t1p.de/nzo93

New blog post - using custom captures in KineFX to solve an interesting edge case: nicholas-taylor.com/blog/spiral-sk…

@thecgwiki Thanks Matt. I really enjoyed your recent talk on KineFX - so many great tips!

Object Roller

Ising / Random Spinners

2023 Already! A few recent hips on the Patreon patreon.com/aeoll : - Dithering algorithms - Shape Aggregation - Ising Model / Random Spinnners - Object Roller HDA - Open Road

@legomyrstan @motionoperators MOPs definitely has similar VEX going on (referenced some of it for the local/global modes) but it's spread across multiple SOPs and intertwined with the full transformation system. I love MOPs and use it occasionally but rewiring my brain to go 'copy to points' first is hard!

@_Nick_Taylor Is there any pros/cons of using your HDA instead of @motionoperators ? IIRC they have similar stuff inside

An 'Attribute Adjust Orient' HDA I've been working up recently. Handles those qmultiply()s and slerp()s so you don't have to! #Houdini