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Jan 17, 2019
1 min

Thinking Particles Crumbling shell

Mimicking wall shell crumbling using in between particles bind relations and the famous Cebas Shape Collision dynamics engine. You can...

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Jan 11, 2019
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Houdini object occlusion and camera culling

Although you can create this tool using a simple attribute vop and a ray sop but out of practice I used a wrangle to achieve the same...

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Dec 30, 2018
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Houdini Hologram

A simple tool that will transform your model into a hologram. The tool's feature: - Define resolution (sections / points in section). -...

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Dec 22, 2018
1 min

RTX Opencl performance:

Using a simple Houdni pyro simulation. quadro P5000 / GTX1070 / GTX 1080 = 3:18s RTX 2080 = 2:05s Around 35% performance gain, that's...

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Dec 16, 2018
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Houdini Quick tip #10 (Attribute copy by id)

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...

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Nov 23, 2018
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Houdini Quick tip #09 (Volume slice)

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...

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Nov 8, 2018
1 min

Houdini Cloud Lighting Baker (Redshift version)

Build on top of the original light baker here... In short it bakes the light calculation to the volume, something similar to bake...

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Nov 5, 2018
2 min

Houdini image sequence loop, offset and hold

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...

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Oct 18, 2018
1 min

Houdini Quick tip #07 (Break each edge into a separate primitive)

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...

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Oct 12, 2018
1 min

Money gun (Houdini 17 Vellum)

Or as they call it cash cannon, ladies and gentlemen I present to you my first vellum test. I can guaranty you that with H17 you will be...

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Oct 5, 2018
1 min

Remesh by attribute

Imagine a case were you have some characters interacting with a ground and you want the ground mesh to have a higher poly count where...

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Oct 2, 2018
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Houdini Quick tip #05 (Fix primitive orientation & Flipped normals)

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...

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Sep 20, 2018
1 min

Houdini Quick tip #04 (Points number & Guide font size)

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

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Sep 13, 2018
1 min

Houdini Cumulative Transform

Cumulative Transform I tried creating this result using the built in Cumulative Transform option inside the copy stamp sop but didnt give...

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Sep 8, 2018
1 min

Houdini Pixelizer

A tool inspired by Portraits project from Dimitris Ladopoulos and Entagma ARTISTIC QUADTREES, it holds four cutting patterns with density...

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Sep 2, 2018
1 min

Houdini Spawn by distance

If you've used 3ds max PFlow then you are familiar with this important feature, a self explanatory title it helps you create trail of...

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Sep 2, 2018
2 min

Houdini Combine / Flatten VDBs

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...

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Aug 31, 2018
1 min

Houdini Quick tip #03 (Points number to array)

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

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Aug 18, 2018
1 min

Houdini Quick tip #02 (Copy ramp)

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...

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Aug 13, 2018
1 min

Houdini sliding values

Or tiling values, as you can see if you have values between 0-1 then it will slide and repeat them. I don't know if this tool is handy...

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