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It's an inherent feature https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/detangle.html but like most nodes in H it's an 'atomic component' and requires the right attribute inputs and set up to work well.

I used to try for small Canadian festivals, this was before the internet was a real thing and we sent in dvds. I still think going local to start is a good idea. I live a budget that is shockingly small, so i search film freeway for discounts and festivals i can afford. I highly recommend that site. My horror films started getting shown when a festival saw my first online and asked me to show it , i was really surprised and they have shown almost all my horror shorts since. There are so many to choose from and I don’t kid myself any will get me anywhere but the validation is nice for my ego and my CV.

I am sure Mike was referring To the ease of learning it. I am pretty slow to learn some things and nodes completely eludes me. Sadly(for me) Blender is also becoming all modes all the time!

This whole project is looking very impressive Cesar!

Ahh... The icon had me totally confused as it looked very similar to a Field.... So I assumed the XPresso was somehow using the attributes of the Field...

I get a lot of notifications in YouTube and FB with DAT shows but can't fihure out what it's all about and also very boring. Just a lot of people sitting on a table talking. I didn't even understand the topics discussed .... It would be more intresting if they had some slideshows or actually using apps to show something... Has anyone watched it ? Did you find it interesting ? Does it have any relation to C4D ?

As I see it the most benefited people will be "content creators". Already 50% of my YT channels feed use AI to create their thumbnails. It won't be long till any kind of "influencer" will eventually use a low cost/free online service to create images, videos or add elements to their recordings (face/voice/background replacement or even full-body replacement(anime characters in Japanese-friendly audience, or cartoon characters for shows intended for children)). Avatar usage is already a thing but it requires expensive non-AI-related software/hardware or service provider. In other words, any totally clueless/amateur wannabe-famous brat, granny or looser will be able to boost his channel in YT, X, Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok, OnlyFans by 500% to compete better with the already successful content creators even if their content is totally a clickbait and BS. Adobe had a substantial user percentage occupied by content creators that found the courage to make the leap of faith and learn Photoshop/AfterEffects/Premier to help them with their content instead of hiring someone to do it for them (but even hiring someone for a job like this is still considered part of that user percentage). I think Adobe saw that and was alarmed with the AI wave, and decided to fight fire with fire in order to keep part of that client percentage that felt more comfortable in Adobe's user interface than search and learn to use (again) a new app that is also still experimental/short-lived or soon-to-charge-ehen-out-of-beta. AI should not be available in the hands of the naive, unspecialized and lazy crowd. Too much freedom has been given to the average person that it has already be shown to be dangerous to the integrity of the society (hate-speech, fake news, disinformation, toxic mindsetting, brain washing and manipulation). This is actually true for all kind of technology not just AI, but with AI things will spin out of control even faster affecting more people exposed to it either young or old. We will soon see books titled "Be an incredible artist in 24 Hours !", 50 pages tops, first 4 pages explaining what online AI you can use and how to make an account, the rest just a list of words you can randomly type in the prompt to produce your thing... People will be so much monkeys that the expert edition of the book will have 100 pages with the words separated into chapters like "Decoration", "Poses", "Animals", "Plants".... because people will be so useless that even language will be hard for them to actually form a comprehensive sentence of their foggy thoughts... Oh, wait... we are already there ridiculousness in the highest order https://www.udemy.com/course/prompt-engineering-ai-course/ https://www.udemy.com/course/best-certified-chatgpt-prompt-engineering-and-ai-course/ The land of Content Creators https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a9q0RW6_460svav1.mp4

Ideally it could most likely just atomically be put through a remesher and be good enough, automatically unwrapped and textured etc. although you’re probably right in that it might not even be needed. which ever way you spin in, iterating time and changes on the fly will be implemented way faster than any human being could do, along with the fact that it can be running all day long 24/7 , 365 with out breaks, with out the need for it to be paid etc. It’s actually kind of astonishing how quickly we’re accelerating towards this. You can almost feel the corporates rubbing their hands together in anticipation. I know there’s a lot of nay sayers down playing the significance of Ai displacing peoples jobs and such, dumping it in the same boat as all the other conspiracy theorists. But I think it’s pretty clear autonomy will change things one way or another, i honestly can’t see it stopping at just being a tool to aid people.

This is cool, although it’s pretty overwhelming how quickly this type of technology is progressing. It I’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for text based prompts to 3d to become useable with out considerable clean up by a human. with the ability to iterate on designs almost instantly, with clean results and minimal human involvement it I’ll be a massive turning point going forward.

UV are done !

Like this? Disable tiling Change your single cubic map to 3 flat maps, all rotated 90 degrees as needed (this fixes the issue with the seams) Add a new plain white material underneath to fill in the new gaps you will see in the corners Under the object manager, select object > bake object Give it a file path to generate a texture, enable "keep uvs", select a resolution Click bake. Your flat projected circles will now all be baked down onto your existing uvs balls.zip