Day 11 - CHOPs

CHOPs

I tried out one of the project which is to create out an animated hammer with audio. I find it very interesting as this is my first time doing out something with audio in Houdini. I didn't know that we could work on audio waveform using Houdini initially. So firstly, I'm created a hammer out then after that, I created a chop network and insert a file. At the file > channel file, I inserted audio inside. Directory is: $HFS/houdini/config/Audio/ to search for the audio that we want to put inside.

I put a resample and changed the sample rate to 1000 then added nodes such as rename,math,filter to create the audio waveform to the correct way it should be. For the filter, I adjusted the filter width to 0.20.
I duplicated the hammer four times and I want to make them sync together and move when the audio is being played.

Instead of using the export node, I used the merge to bring back the animation that sync with the audio.

After that, I moved on to the other two tutorials which is the animated speaker and pin table. However for these two tutorial, I didn't do from scratch but I just explored the completed file and see each of their functions while going through Mr Ari's tutorial video with him.