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Houdini Deforming Volume
Despite Houdini having a built in volume deforming solution still it's hard to implement it on an imported deforming mesh, this tool will...
Jun 171 min read
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Ever Wanted to Visualize CT Scans in 3D? Here's a Houdini Tool That Does It
I built a tool in Houdini that takes a CT scan image sequence — those 2D grayscale slices of scanned anatomy or objects — and...
May 311 min read
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Houdini Tools Reel
I'm really excited to share this reel featuring a variety of Houdini setups, developed with the generous support of you guys my patrons....
Mar 101 min read
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Whirlpool (Houdini)
Whirlpool Sop tool, a relatively fast and cheep way to create a whirlpool by generating a radial uv on a mesh to drive a noise map,...
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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Snow imprints (Houdini mpm solver)
With the introduction of the new Houdini 20.5 mpm solver I had to upgrade my old snow vellum setup to use the the new toy, it's much...
Aug 27, 20241 min read
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Leds Grid (Houdini)
Leds Grid is a simple setup to create such nice effect, you can control: - lines density. - leds density per line. - volume shape. -...
Jun 10, 20241 min read
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Houdini Snow imprints
Compared to my previous setup this one uses real simulation and collision: - I used a sop solver a couple of times with different mesh...
Apr 28, 20241 min read
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Houdini Snow print setup
Snow prints setup, a fake method to carve a surface, by: - raycasting the mesh to conform to the collision mesh using a solver. -...
Mar 9, 20241 min read
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Houdini Voronoi morph
Morph one object to another in a voronoi style, tool's features: - It's not a solver based, changes can be seen realtime. - Morph type:...
Aug 13, 20231 min read
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Houdini Flip mask stick on collision
Creating a custom volume stick mask around collision object to guide your fluid behavior (stick/slide) on that surface. I made it using...
Jul 8, 20231 min read
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Sort points by distance (Houdini file)
An attempt to sort two groups of points so each point will find its closest pair in the target group, and it works like this: - first we...
Jan 15, 20231 min read
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Glowy lake (Houdini)
I was amazed by this bioluminescent phenomena in Australia so I tried to mimic it in Houdini, nothing complex it's just a: - flip...
Oct 18, 20221 min read
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Houdini group by distance
It's a little trick I would like to share with you guys, if you were asked to group a bunch of points based on their distance to another...
Jul 6, 20221 min read
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Houdini Trace in camera space
A very handy tool which I tend to use a lot, do you often find your self in a situation where you need a 3d object to match a live plate,...
May 5, 20221 min read
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Houdini ultimate waterfall setup (particle version)
Creating a large scale waterfall never been easier, it came as a request from one my supporters on Patreon and after some testing well I...
Nov 13, 20211 min read
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Houdini Bricker
Slice any object vertically, horizontally or both with some randomness. I originally created it to create brick walls. As you can see in...
Oct 16, 20211 min read
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Houdini Volumetric Colored Trail
The core part of this tool is to have at least a rough roto of your moving subject and for that I used Runwayml, it's an amazing platform...
Sep 19, 20211 min read
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Houdini paint peeling effect
Peeling a wall hasn't been easier Tool's features: - currently working on plane surfaces, while can be applied to organic shapes but...
Aug 4, 20211 min read
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Snow surface cover (Houdini)
A great tool to cover any surface with snow. Tool's features: - Covering was achieved by using "Mask by feature" you can specify the snow...
Jul 10, 20211 min read
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Houdini recursive cloth tearing
Remember the Recursive Fracturing tool. Well it's the same idea but done with vellum. Features: - Activation stage, cloth will freeze...
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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