PDG 101 - Pt.1: Course Overview & PDG Basics
Added 2020-10-29 09:12:44 +0000 UTCIt happened – we finally found a brave guy who agreed to take us through the ins & outs of using PDG in a small studio/freelance environment. Meet Chris Kopic! You might know him from his guest tutorial – turns out he’s not only into simulations and rendering but also into automatization and parallelization. Exactly what you’d need to work effectively with PDG.
So, please welcome Chris and enjoy exploring this immensely powerful toolset called PDG in Houdini!
Comments
This is extremely helpful, great! PDG always felt daunting, until I watched these.
Gio
2021-02-13 21:03:28 +0000 UTCTutorial request: Animation wedging with flipbooks and pdg variable burn-ins. So for example a 50 frame pyro animation with different simulation and combustion values.
Joerg Fluegge
2020-11-08 01:37:14 +0000 UTCJust spoke with Mo. I guess you can look forward to thursday ;)
Entagma_Chris
2020-11-02 20:22:23 +0000 UTCHey! I haven't found a way to directly access a top attrib from vex, but this workaround worked for me: Create an input field for the right data type ("chi()" for the index) and simply add your pdg index in there, like you would with any other parameter.
Entagma_Chris
2020-11-02 20:13:02 +0000 UTCThank you Entagma and Chris! Any idea when the next tutorial on PDG would come out? Kind regards
Joris Putteneers
2020-11-02 10:51:52 +0000 UTCHow would you go about accessing the pdg index inside of a vex node? if you know :D
Eesak
2020-11-01 01:48:43 +0000 UTCHey Tom! Thanks for your input! External, non PDG managers is a topic, I'm still unsure about, if it should fit into this series. At least in my experience these are pretty uncommon in small studios and since there are multiple available, I'll probably have to favor one over the other. But let's see how high the demand actually is. And there will definitely be lots of otherwise tedious tasks, we'll tackle :)
Entagma_Chris
2020-10-29 18:33:10 +0000 UTCWould be great to cover some PDG/Shotgun tasks, and how we can use our SG database to automate hideously time consuming and tedious tasks from that.
Tom Rowell
2020-10-29 16:11:34 +0000 UTCThanks Entagma Chris. I’ll check it out with them.
paul silcox
2020-10-29 16:11:09 +0000 UTCHey Paul, my guess is that you'd need at least an engine license per client, since this is the lowest level license, that's still able to run simulations. I'd just ask the side fx support, though. They're usually very fast and very helpful in these cases.
Entagma_Chris
2020-10-29 16:09:51 +0000 UTCThis course is well timed indeed! Does anybody know, with PDG can you run sims on all machines or just ones with engine licenses? I can't get it running at the moment because of conflicts with my existing pipeline. I wish I could get a genie here sometimes so i could click my fingers and it all worked but alas!
paul silcox
2020-10-29 14:52:51 +0000 UTCJust in time for me :) !!
Csaba Kanal
2020-10-29 10:39:41 +0000 UTCWhy did you got rid of the sc on bgeo.sc btw? It's not even a pdg question haha, the pdg part was super clear. Thx
Particle Skull
2020-10-29 10:38:53 +0000 UTCLove it! The analogies are great
Particle Skull
2020-10-29 10:37:22 +0000 UTC
