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Full Content URL: Author: Arjan Van Meerten Full Content Description: Hos Fast Relax Deformer is a HDA asset for Houdini. The asset is tested with houdini indie 19 and 19.5. This HDA Asset is a node that utilizes opencl to get cloth like effects on your geometry. More precisely this node takes two inputs and will try to deform the mesh to match the length of all the edges of the mesh with those in the rest input. It can be used for a variety of purposes. Check the example file for a few different use cases. This is a similar technique that vellum cloth is using, but this node can be a lot faster and is used as a deformer. But it has a lot less features (like collision and bend resistance) and precise control then vellum. Check the contents of the zip file for the documentation. Author Page: Prerequisites: About the Author: With three other companions Arjan van Meerten started House of Secrets in 2004. Besides animation and visual effects for commercials they made a series of their own animations. Arjan worked on and co-directed “Geweldenaren van Ver” and “Cruise Patrol” After this he became fascinated by the synergy between music and animation and he made the music videos “Blackhole” and “From Below” in his spare time. In 2013 he became very interested in VR, which became a lot affordable at that time. After buying the oculus DK1 he started working on a VR music experience called Surge that took about 2 years before finishing it. Surge became very popular, because it was one of the first VR music experiences at that time. Later that year Surge was shown at the Sundance festival in the New Frontier program. In 2016 Arjan started working on a new music experience named Apex, funded by WeVr and KaleidoscopeVR. Apex premiered at the Tribeca film festival in 2017. At that time Arjan also started working on the VR game Kin with House of Secrets. Kin was released in 2017 on the gearVR and the Oculus rift. In the next year Arjan made and directed three VR music experiences in collaboration with Kaleidoscope on original music by Amon Tobin, Little Dragon and Roomful of Teeth From then on Arjan has been working on a variety of projects with House of Secrets and hopes to release a new music experience very soon.
