From the course: Houdini 15.5: Dynamics and Simulation

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Open HDA in Maya

Open HDA in Maya - Houdini Tutorial

From the course: Houdini 15.5: Dynamics and Simulation

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Open HDA in Maya

- [Narrator] Now we're going to bring our Houdini digital asset into Maya to see the power of the Houdini engine running in this context. So go to my Houdini Engine menu, and go load asset and I'm going to navigate to the desktop, Exercise files, chapter four, Houdini, chapter four, HDA, and here's my simulation HDA. I'm going to grab that and bring that in. Alright so now I'm going to grab my cube array and sphere and hide them in the out liner. Let's reframe up and see what we've got, this was our scene from Houdini. When we open up the simulation node, and we see we have our moving object static object in our constraints. Everything looks good. When you click on the simulation, you can see that here are all the parameters that we had set up in the parameter view in Houdini, and first off, I'm going to go to the constraint view and switch that to Proxy box. Now over here on constraints in the out liner, I'm going to do control-h to hide that. So that's why we set up that system so…

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