Houdini 20 brings a new ripple solver that is extremely fast and fun to use. This video goes over how to create a water ripple effect as if it was raining.
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2023-11-22 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Houdini 20 brings a new node that will be extremely useful for those creating procedural models. The node is called PolyHinge and this video covers how it functions.
2023-11-21 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Houdini 20 allows us to do texture mask painting inside of the viewport using UV's space. You no longer need to subdivide your mesh to a very high resolution in order to get nice detail for masks.
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2023-11-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Houdini 20 brings a few new nodes to the Vellum and POPs. This video takes a look at how to use vellum wind shadow with the new pop wind shadow, pop mask from shadow and pop attribute blur.
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2023-11-14 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Houdini 20 brings a much needed Quad Remesh tool. It is still in beta but it does a pretty good job. This video goes over some of the different settings and how to clean up some of the errors that come up.
2023-11-09 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Houdini 20 is out and if you want to take a look at some of the new features quickly and hear my initial thoughts you can check them out here:
More Houdini 20 videos will be coming in the future. I am super excited about the new features and will be covering a lot so stay tuned.
2023-11-09 06:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you need to only affect a certain portion of a volume. Doing this isn't as straightforward as it might seem. This video covers how to mask volumes in Houdini 19.5.
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If you have ever struggled with lighting your scenes or you just do not enjoy the lighting process then you need to be using Solaris. This lighting tool in Solaris will totally change the way you light your work.
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This Solaris Lighting Tool is Amazing | ...
2023-10-31 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully everyone is doing well. I just wanted to share a little about what I am doing and what I have been thinking. We have been working on The Lost Facility for a bit now and I took a slight break due to the pc issues I had and also we were approaching the texturing phase which requires me to record and render at the same time which is pretty heavy on a computer. I had to figure out somethi...
2023-10-26 05:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Vray has a built in sky system that allows you to add clouds to your environments in just a few clicks. This video goes over how to setup clouds in Vray for Houdini 19.5.
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2023-10-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's expand on how to create vector fields by going over how to add detail to vector fields and expand the vector field to more than just the path of a curve.
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2023-10-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Vector fields can be used to really dial in the movement you are looking for in simulations making it very important to understand how they work. This video goes over how to create and visualize vector fields in Houdini 19.5.
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2023-10-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This Devlog we take a look at starting to create masks for our terrain so that we can use them at render time to create a realistic material.
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2023-10-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostGood news! My pc seems to be back up and running. I am looking forward to getting back into things. I will be returning to The Lost Facility as well as some new content that I have been wanting to do for a while. I do have a small video going up tomorrow, but no project file. It's something we have covered in The Lost Facility, but I wanted to cover in a separate video in case people are lookin...
2023-09-26 01:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostNo video this week. Unfortunately, I am still having issues with my pc even with a new motherboard but different than with the last one. On top of that, I got horribly sick yesterday and haven't been able to troubleshoot as much as I wanted. Hopefully I will be able to get back on track soon.
2023-09-19 16:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostBad news, unfortunately. I have been fighting with pc issues all week. My workstation will not even boot currently. I believe the issue is my motherboard. I have had this same issue before and have been able to get around it in the past, but I can't seem to get around it this time. My hand is forced now, I guess, and I am going to have to replace my motherboard. Because of that, I definitely wi...
2023-09-15 02:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This DevLog for The Lost Facility project focuses on merging all of the terrain we have created into one large terrain to make it easier for texturing.
The video for your reference can be found here:
Merging the Terrains | The Lost Facility DevLog 6 | Houdini 19.5 - YouTube
2023-09-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This DevLog for The Lost Facility project focuses on creating the background mountain that will ultimately sit behind the facility.
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2023-09-05 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI did not have time to really put any work into The Lost Facility project this past week due to life events. I did have time for a quick stream though and we made quite a bit of progress. I will highlight it next week with whatever other progress I make and provide the project files then. If you missed the stream you can watch it here:
This DevLog for The Lost Facility looks at blending heightfields together. In order to make a terrain that is believable you cannot have seams. To get rid of seams you need to find a reliable method of blending that also allows you to still texture the terrain.
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2023-08-22 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This DevLog for The Lost Facility project goes over the final process I decided on for adding detail to the cliffside of our terrains. I have attached the project files as well as the textures we use for this video:
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2023-08-15 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This DevLog for The Lost Facility project goes over fixing the height field stretching in Houdini 19.5. This method is great for creating more realistic cliffs. I have attached the project files as well as the texture we use for this video.
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https://youtu.be/uKgNIJPhebA 2023-08-08 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This DevLog for The Lost Facility project goes over blocking out the initial concept of our scene, building the canyon and setting the terrains up inside Houdini.
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2023-08-01 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I am starting to build a new project. This will be an ongoing project that progressively gets closer to completion as time goes on. I will be sharing the process in weekly logs of what I have been up to in. The videos will be structure as walk throughs as well as tutorials like you all are used to. This new project will hopefully allow me to learn a lot as well as start to move towards some of ...
2023-07-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI am going to be trying something new starting with the next video. Changing up what I will be working on and sharing in videos to better align with what I want to be doing more longer term. Things will be changing, but hopefully, in a good way. I'm still going to be doing 3D work and using Houdini mostly, but what I build is going to be different. I'll talk more about it in the next video, sha...
2023-07-22 18:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Rest state UV's are necessary to prevent your textures from sliding on geometry or simulations sometimes. They are pretty easy to create in Houdini and this project shows how it is done.
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2023-07-18 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This project takes a look at a variety of different setups to get you up and running with the basics of Vellum grains.
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2023-07-11 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We went over how to attract particles to the surface of an object recently, but you may not realize that you can do the same thing with a rigid body simulation. This project looks at doing just that.
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2023-07-04 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the project file from the live stream where we build a setup where we blended the attraction of particles between two objects. I decided to not build a final render setup for this that is cleaned up and more concise. I am ready to move on from this topic for the most part.
You can watch the video of the live stream here:
This project takes a look at how to attract particles to the surface of objects in Houdini. The project file contains multiple different methods for this that give slightly different results.
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