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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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Houdini Cloud Lighting Baker v4 (Redshift version)
The original tool can be found here... What's been updated: - Much faster setup (keep an eye on fps and performance monitor), normally...
May 12, 20211 min read
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Houdini uv suction
A simple setup that help you cheat a suction effect performed on the uv channel, features: - suction center, it has some limitations when...
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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Shark Leaping Out the Water (Houdini)
I did some upgrades on the old setup... And they are as follow: Flip: - Solve Pressure with adaptivity was enabled - I increased the...
Mar 7, 20212 min read
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Houdini mask pyro forces by speed and distance
Adding more details to your smoke sometimes can be tricky and a straight forward Turbulence is not the answer, so in an attempt to bring...
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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Houdini Bricks Builder
Bricks builder or as I like to call it "Brickfy" is a new tool that takes advantage of the amazing Chain sop introduced in Houdini 18.5...
Dec 8, 20201 min read
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Houdini Water Explosion
My take on water explosion, it's heavily inspired by Graham Matthew's setup. Tool's feature: - main plash done with flip. - secondary...
Nov 19, 20201 min read
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Houdini dirty fluid
In an attempt to mimic how dirt in water behaves, I created this simple setup Using different flip densities, which gave an acceptable...
Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Houdini Parachute (Vellum)
The anatomy of this setup goes like: - Box: Sadly still RBD doesn't interact quite well with vellum so I had to fake the rigidity of the...
Oct 10, 20201 min read
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Houdini Glue
This setup is based on Arnold Song's technique presented in Sidefx Worldwide HUG | Los Angeles. I faced a problem with the constraint...
Oct 3, 20201 min read
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Houdini Dirt
Getting my self familiar with grain solver doing some stress and stability tests, I thought it might be helpful to share. As you can see...
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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Houdini Fireworks custom shape
Skip to the 20s to see the tool in action and how does it function, it was based on the previous fireworks tool but with custom explosion...
Sep 5, 20201 min read
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Houdini (instancing,proxy,redshift rs....)
The most ultimate guide to redshift proxy, instancing, timeshifting rs sequence, not sure if I covered everything but what happened is...
Aug 19, 20201 min read
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Houdini Branching & Roots tool
If you've tried the built in Labs Curve Branches tool then you'll know what I'm trying to achieve here, Despite looking so complex but...
Aug 6, 20201 min read
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Houdini Painting Flow
I was inspired by David Ferreira work that was featured on Houdini Hive 2020, so I thought of utilizing the flow field I created earlier...
Jul 12, 20201 min read
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Houdini Flow Field
I did a small research around vector and flow fields and came across this blog post. so inspiring but didnt mention how exactly it was...
Jul 3, 20201 min read
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Houdini Vellum hair (up res)
A nice trick that will allow you to up res an already simmed vellum hair, in my example I simmed only 350 hairs and boosted them to 5000....
Jun 17, 20201 min read
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Houdini Vellum balloons (wire cut supported)
I built upon the old balloons setup and added the following: - string will cut now at a specific threshold and a specific point. - new...
Jun 7, 20201 min read
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