Mardini 2024 | Day 18 | APEX Scene Animate

The MARDINI Daily Art Challenge is your chance to compete for cool prizes by creating images or animations using Houdini! With a different challenge every day during the month of March, you'll have 31 chances to enter and win.
For this year's MARDINI, the daily prompts are specific Houdini nodes. The Day 18 challenge is the APEX Scene Animate SOP. This lesson uses the Electra character which comes with Houdini,
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[@ghua]

good video, thanks
I would like to point out Houdini is not very noob friendly in terms of videos. I am looking for series of simple videos addressing basic gaming tasks (now with APEX):
- import premade character and rig it using APEX
- retarget mixamo anim to our model and export everything to lets say FBX
- adjust mixamo animation
etc etc
the information is there I think but not very easy to find or it is buried in those videos addressing advanced topics

[@reasonsreasonably]

Would you say the same thing about a Nuclear Powerplant? "This plant isn't very noob friendly!".. JUST KIDDING!

[@gregorybennings8718]

APEX is new and beta. Maybe easier to work with kinefx instead.

[@mikkelmelby]

tytytyty

[@gregorybennings8718]

Wish the video was longer.....there aren't alot of Apex videos.

[@houdini3d]

Have you checked out the Max Rose videos: th-cam.com/channels/gU3BXDQkQFuGsCHt3lUUzw.html

[@JWPanimation]

It would be great if we could a Unreal Manny rig and animation exporter. I'm hoping we can move away from FBX as a standard here and get something akin to USD for rigging.

[@Sintakaschannel]

nice video，but I need to figure out how to build my own APEX character first 😂

[@kwesikwaa]

was hyped up for APEX until it launched. lol
no autorig?

[@kwesikwaa]

@@priyeshpv i was surprised cos that is the bare minimum. like all other nodes, they could provide those auto configured nodes for users themselves to customize if they want to. it is the best way to start than all the complexity they demo'd.

[@houdini3d]

This new feature set is in beta - it is the building blocks that will become auto rigging tools down the line. Many users will be able to rig without touching APEX directly - others will want to dive in an use it it their advantage.

[@fastlearner292]

​@@priyeshpvdo you not understand what "early beta" means?😂