Houdini Parenting
Channel: peter quint
Date: 2016-01-30

This tutorial is from 2010 and was made for Houdini 10. 

It was originally part of the PQHoudini channel on vimeo.

While Houdini has changed a great deal over the past years some aspects of this tutorial are still relevant.

A look at some of the tools available to link objects to other objects, including parenting, rivet and sticky nodes, and using the blend node to animate between different parenting relationships. We then put this all together into a final scene of two robot arms handing an apple between them.
A project file is available at sites.google.com/site/pqhoudinitutorial

A question from a viewer:  when you were animating the box on the grid (with the sticky node) you put 2 key frames but the animation did not correspond to those key frames you had.Why did this happen?

My reply: Because in fact I only keyframe the u value (I alt left click on that value, rather than the parameter label which would keyframe both u and v). It is working correctly (the u value does change as keyframed) but it would have been clearer if I'd keyframed both u and v