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Houdini Tools & Setups:
Welcome to my Houdini tools vault, most of the tools you see here will be posted on Patreon, some will be free and some paid.


Houdini ➜ SVG Exporter (Camera-Aware, Layered)
Export SOP geometry to clean, layered SVG —perfect for Illustrator, Figma, and browsers. Supports XY/XZ/YZ  projections and true Camera  views with pixel-accurate artboards and stroke widths. Highlights Projections:  XY/XZ/YZ + Camera  (persp/ortho), artboard = camera resolution. Strokes:  Global Stroke Width Mode  → Pixels (match Camera)  or Use @width (scene units) . Attributes → Styles:  @Cd → color, @Alpha → opacity, @width → stroke, name → id, @layer/@layer_order + @svg_
Oct 131 min read
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Illustrator → Houdini: Smart SVG Importer (Python SOP)
Ever wished you could bring Illustrator artwork straight into Houdini as clean geometry with colors intact —without a mess of broken...
Sep 102 min read
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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 181 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 10, 20241 min read
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