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I am working with Houdini (a 3d software) on a computer with an Intel Core i5-8400 2.80GHz and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

My issue is that Houdini is consuming all my CPU but nearly none of my GPU. It also happens when I run other programs like Blender, Unity or any other 3D software.

I've tryed installing the NVIDIA studio-ready drivers, with similar results. I'm sure that using a 3D software, I should be able to speed up the process with my GPU, but I can´t get it working.

Can someone tell me what I need to do to "enable" my GPU, please?

Here is a screenshot of my task manager running a stressful task in Houdini:

In Blender, if you hit M key and select Merge At Center, all the selected points will be merged into 1 point.

I want to ask how should I perform the same action in Houdini?

I research a lot and discovered that some people recommend using the Fuse Node, but I still cannot figure out what setting in the Fuse Node should it take to merge all points at center.

I would like to model an AR asset, like a keyring with a few keys in it. Obviously, I would like to show that it could be picked up and then because of physics, keys will naturally show up to the bottom of the ring. How could I do that in ARKit / Reality Composor / USDZ or anyway that iOS allows?

[EDIT] Andy Fedoroff perfectly answered my question about whether ARKit / Reality Composor could model a keyring with a few keys question. Are there other tools (such as Unity or UnrealEngine or Houdini) that could be used to model this kind of relationship? Will USD / USDZ support this kind of model?

I'm using this code to filter some text out of a .txt file. Then in another sheet i use cell references to built my custom table.

Everything is working great, except if the source file is empty, Power Query resizes the output table so that the reference got broken in the second sheet.

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how can I prevent power query to resize the range in his table? or, somehow, keep the same number of rows/column so that it won't break my references?

I'm trying to copy this example; I have a scss file that I'm using with modular CSS in a React/Electron project. I want to define the function to be used by paint in the same file, as in the example:

I have a React/Electron app, where I'm trying to use the new CSS Houdini paint() function (as demonstrated in this page). In my project's index.html file I have added a script tag with the paintWorklet addModule() function as shown:

MySQL (mariadb Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.44-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2) gave me this error: ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 129: Can't create table `Houdini`.`stamp` (errno: 150 "Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed")

when trying to create this table:

I add different Values to the Houdini Variables with Python.

Some of these Variables are file pathes and end with an "/" - others are just names and do not end with an "/".

In my current code I use [:-1] to remove the last character of the filepath, so I dont have the "/". The problem is, that if I add a Value like "Var_ABC", the result will be "Var_AB" since it also removes the last character.

How can i remove the last character only if the last character is a "/"?

Thats what I have and it works so far:

Ahoy everyone,

I have recently been trying to implement a Node based graph system that passes data between nodes using plugs. Similar to many of the 3D applications like houdini and maya.

I have written a similar system before using Python, and wanted to try this with Swift as my first learning excersise. Boy did I jump into the deep end on this one.

I am stuck now with Swifts Arrays, as I would like to store a list of Generic plugs. Each plug can have its own value type float, int, color, string, Vector Matrix.

I have read up about Type Erasers and opaque types, but still cant seem to get my values our of a list in a way that I can perform some arithmetic on them.

All and any help that might put me in the direction would be greatly appreciated :D