Nice pacing, great explanations of relative references, quick explanations of common hot keys and concepts. And who doesn't love a procedural lite brite? well done.
Fun tutorial. The ch("height")/2 trick on the center point to always keep it at zero is great but an old caution (probably approaching zero relevance on modern computers/compilers) is to avoid dividing when you can multiply. So I always type ch("height") * 0.5 instead. I guess divide can potentially set up a "divide by zero" calculation which might cause a crash and also, multiply is supposedly faster than divide on computers, though again, this may all be irrelevant now days :)
That’s a good observation and I didn’t even think about it. Considering I’m math first artist second. I’ll make sure to make a note of that going forward. Thank you!
Great tutorial! Was confused what the "ai_shapes" was in the beginning but you did explain it a bit later. Hardest part for me was finding an .ai image because I dont have illustrator. XD So downloaded an .ai of a bunny. Worked great. My LiteBrite is now prepared for Easter.
Haha that’s awesome! The beauty is I just use an ai but any shape will do (you just might have to make the geometric shape of it in Houdini) glad you liked it!
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Woah that's not After Effects.
Awesome tut Brian! Great work!
Thank you!
Love it! Great work!
Thank you! :D
Nice pacing, great explanations of relative references, quick explanations of common hot keys and concepts. And who doesn't love a procedural lite brite? well done.
I know I do! Haha thank you!
Thank You very much, Bryan!
Welcome! I hope this was enjoyable and informative!
Fun tutorial. The ch("height")/2 trick on the center point to always keep it at zero is great but an old caution (probably approaching zero relevance on modern computers/compilers) is to avoid dividing when you can multiply. So I always type ch("height") * 0.5 instead. I guess divide can potentially set up a "divide by zero" calculation which might cause a crash and also, multiply is supposedly faster than divide on computers, though again, this may all be irrelevant now days :)
That’s a good observation and I didn’t even think about it. Considering I’m math first artist second. I’ll make sure to make a note of that going forward. Thank you!
Great tutorial! Was confused what the "ai_shapes" was in the beginning but you did explain it a bit later. Hardest part for me was finding an .ai image because I dont have illustrator. XD
So downloaded an .ai of a bunny. Worked great. My LiteBrite is now prepared for Easter.
Haha that’s awesome! The beauty is I just use an ai but any shape will do (you just might have to make the geometric shape of it in Houdini) glad you liked it!