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Mplay

Mplay - Houdini Tutorial

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Mplay

- [Instructor] Now we're going to take a look at MPlay and MPlay is Houdini's companion image viewer that is a separate standalone application, but that works really nicely in harmony with Houdini to be able to view images and we use it a lot as we're getting into rendering. So what I'm going to do here is go into the Render menu and you see there's an MPlay option at the bottom. And I'll just say Load Disk Files for right now. Okay so what we're going to do is I'm going to go to my Desktop, I'm going to go to my Exercise Files, Chapter 4, Flipbooks and I'm going to load in the Flipbook that we made in the previous video, so I'm going to open up this folder and you can see that it actually can just show this whole sequence as one file. You see down here there's an option to show sequences as one entry. If I turn that off, we actually see every individual file and we can load any image file into this, but it's really nice because often we're working with image sequences and we can just…

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