Update: apparently Houdini has a beta tool for that under the Labs section called "edgegroup_to_curve", it will save you a couple of extra nodes ;) In 3ds ma...

Houdini Windows vs Linux: Well this topic never gets old and I came with my numbers here showing how Linus can breath life in an old rig, you will notice a b...

I got a task where I had to pick certain parts of a flip and assign a different color (or any other attribute), the normal way to do so is to: - Freeze the d...

A lot of times viewport volume representation is not enough or at least wont show you what's inside, so quick way to MRI scan your volume is to use "volumesl...

Well I thought such task is as easy as dialing a parameter in the texture or file merge node but no this is Houdini and nothing should be easy and straightfo...

I dont know if it is the right title (#explode edges, #detach edges), some times I miss 3ds max when it comes to such tasks, but here you go a simple way to ...

Sometimes you will be handled such corrupt mesh where some of the primitives are flipped and a simple Normal sop wont fix it for you, you might not see it in...

The default small size font is so annoying when you are debugging, well it appears that we can enlarge it ;)

I came across two situation that urged me to find a way to combine or let's say flatten vdbs so instead of having multiple densities you will end up with onl...

Two ways I found out until now to sort your geometry points number in a detail array attribute: - A conventional and more straight forward way where you loop...

It should be so obvious right clicking on almost anything in Houdini will give you a copy option but I didnt know when it comes to ramps that you should hit ...

Something that's gonna face every artist building a new rig, which is better a fast cpu or more cores. Well let's find out, I'll focus more on simulation tas...

As most of us newly Houdini converts every now and then we tend to move back to our original software to do rendering whether it was 3ds max C4D etc.... and ...

Latest update and still Houdini 17 doesnt support multi GPU acceleration specially when it comes to simulation tasks, but there is a trick that we can do to ...

In some cases (well most) your GPU memory will not be able to handle your large grid simulation, so did you know that you are able to make Houdini utilize CP...

In this article you will learn how to achieve the same (normals & object) velocity you used to get with Fumefx but with Houdini pyro. Dive inside... #Houdini...

In this article you will learn how to compress cache files drastically, we aren't talking about deleting unnecessary attributes before saving the file, I wil...