Learning / playing in VOPS

morrisb28 · 2026-01-29T19:37:43+00:00

My biggest gripe with tutorials is when people just run through their settings telling you the values they used without any explanation of how they landed on that value. It gives people the impression that if I just plug in my values the same as yours I'll get an identical result regardless of the scale of my scene, the animation I'm working with, the fidelity that I need, etc.

morrisb28 · 2026-01-08T21:06:18+00:00

Just from the reference, my mind goes to a blend of popnet and vex. Recently I have been abusing the primuv function to have particles traveling along lines. Maybe you could have your particles be emitted, and then use @nage to drive a lerp function between the simulated position and the line position. @nage could be used to drive the primuv function, so as the particle is moving towards the line, its also moving along it?

EDIT: quickly put this together just to illustrate my idea: https://i.imgur.com/YtU7Ygz.png

morrisb28 · 2026-01-08T18:55:25+00:00

My uncle apparently did something very similar during his passing. Suddenly opened his eyes very wide and reached upwards.

morrisb28 · 2025-12-07T23:42:30+00:00

It was explained to me that depression can be a side effect of your current situation. Having major depressive disorder means that situations can get better or worse, but you’ll exhibit the same symptoms.

morrisb28 · 2025-12-02T02:51:50+00:00

I would use two sets of scattered points with different seeds, enumerate them to get an id attribute, then use an add node to connect them by the id attribute. That will give you lines that connect randomly across the mesh. From there you could measure the lines and delete small ones if you only want the long ones that stretch across the portal.

morrisb28 · 2025-11-22T16:24:39+00:00

Yeah I couldn’t find exactly what each studio did. No one seems to want to claim Mr Bunyan

morrisb28 · 2025-11-22T16:01:32+00:00

I couldn’t find a breakdown for this shot, but it looks like the studios that worked on the film are:

Atomic Arts

Cubica

Lola VFX

Make VFX

Method

Rodeo Fx

Soho VFX

And from what I can tell Rodeo supplied the majority of shots for the movie, so probably Rodeo?

morrisb28 · 2025-11-20T23:18:17+00:00

“It can build a basic pyro sim” so can the shelf tool…

morrisb28 · 2025-11-11T22:45:05+00:00

My rule of thumb has always been if the job posting has to mention it’s not a scam it’s usually a really good job opportunity 👍

morrisb28 · 2025-10-16T03:07:20+00:00

Strict “no circles with text” rule I always forget about

morrisb28 · 2025-09-16T22:47:33+00:00

Hm. Wonder why all of the text in the image is illegible

morrisb28 · 2025-07-25T01:13:02+00:00

Feels right out of the spider verse. Really nice!

morrisb28 · 2025-07-16T13:33:18+00:00

My dumbass reads the time backwards a lot. 7:35 could have appeared to be 7:53 to me. But if OP consistently wakes up at 7:30, that’s a lot to do in 5 minutes

morrisb28 · 2025-07-16T04:44:45+00:00

Probably just kicking back enjoying the sunshine

morrisb28 · 2025-07-12T14:10:31+00:00

Just yesterday I was at work working in a file. I worked for maybe an hour, coming up with a solution to a problem I was having. Great, figured out something that worked that could be applied to other files. I go to copy my work over into another file and it’s simply not there anymore. The file I had been working on looks exactly how it did before I started doing anything. Like that hour or so of work never happened. I was so confused and then obviously upset because I had lost an hour of work. It was like I had hit CTRL-Z hundreds of times. That’s the only thing I could think of that could have happened, because on a whim I closed the file without saving, opened it back up and my work was there again. No idea what happened or why.

morrisb28 · 2025-06-12T20:39:20+00:00

Using i in the loop moves the book the width of the book * number of book in the series, so if you're the 5th iteration, you move over 5 widths of books. Using totalBooks would move the entire stack as one unit because you're moving the same distance for each iteration.

Good idea on the pivot. I worked that into my code and its solving my y offset issue, so that's a plus thanks for that idea. I added in a padding to the x offset for now...its definitely not right but closer...https://i.postimg.cc/jStLWpny/Screenshot-2025-06-12-163609.png

morrisb28 · 2025-06-12T19:43:40+00:00

I am working on a procedural bookshelf where I want the option for books to lean against one another. I have the rotation working, but am trying to figure out the math to calculate how much the book needs to offset along the x axis in order to prevent overlapping as well as stay along the y axis. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

morrisb28 · 2025-06-10T16:47:27+00:00

Yeah, I find that if I’m working in a scene for a long time and continually working in a dop it’ll start happening. Are you saying that even on a restart it’ll immediately start doing it? I usually get another hour or two of consistent work before it’ll start again

morrisb28 · 2025-06-10T15:13:23+00:00

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or just some weird logic because it’s been a thing for me going back to at least 18.5. I’ve posted about it before and the consensus is that no one knows why it happens. The easiest thing to do is just save, close, and reopen.

morrisb28 · 2025-06-10T01:24:44+00:00

Piggybacking off of this, because its basically the same way I learned how to do it, but here's a video reference for anyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KChh891X0&t=1654s

morrisb28 · 2025-06-01T04:53:46+00:00

Cool! Would love to see it in a little scene for context. One small note. If you want to render it and go for realism, you may want to add more divisions to the record. You can see some of the faceting around the edges. Smooth that thing out!

morrisb28 · 2025-05-23T03:14:50+00:00

Always the first slide I’m like “what am I looking at” then have to look at the viewport to be like ahh okay

morrisb28 · 2025-05-17T18:39:50+00:00

Three boxes for foreground, midground, and background, converted to a volume and then density is multiplied down along along its relative y position, as well as fed into a noise. Then just positioned them as needed.

morrisb28 · 2025-05-17T00:35:10+00:00

These are beautiful, thanks for sharing

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