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...
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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.
- Sep 19
- 1 min
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...
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- Aug 4
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 10
- 1 min
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...
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- May 12
- 1 min
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...
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- Apr 5
- 1 min
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...
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- Mar 7
- 2 min
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...
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- Feb 8
- 1 min
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...
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- Dec 8, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Nov 19, 2020
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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...
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- Nov 9, 2020
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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...
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- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Oct 3, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Aug 19, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 12, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 3, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
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....
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- Jun 7, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- May 5, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini fountain
I tried creating this effect a couple of years ago but "Pop fluid" wasn't added to Houdini yet also the fluid sourcing back then was...
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- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini Fireworks
I started with the firework shelf tool thinking that it will give me the ultimate solution, but as most of you know it doesn't do much,...
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- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini Hologram (animated object upgraded)
Well if you've been following along the updates done for the Image base hologram then this would be a natural next step, I just added the...
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- Mar 2, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini Hologram (image based)
Remember the old Hologram tool Well I pushed it more so it now has a light source with some nice volumetric effect. Download...
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- Feb 9, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini Deforming Flip
Well if you are looking for the technique behind Spider Man the water rise monster shot then you are in the right place. I found two ways...
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- Dec 26, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Fish School
In short a simple fish system which includes: - Avoiding each other. - Avoiding obstacles. - Controllable range at where the fish will...
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- Nov 2, 2019
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Houdini mixing smoke colors with different densities
Doing colored smoke used to be a bit of a hassle in Houdini but as of version 17 it became easier and here I'm showing it with a density...
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- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Vellum balloons (scene file)
A simple setup to create balloons, Tool's features: - Different string length (yup I used strings not cloth for the wires) - Balloons...
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- Oct 3, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Hologram (image based)
Continuing with the hologram series but this time I created a tool that uses a 2d sequence to create an appealing 3D (or let's say 2.5D)...
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- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Reflection Vector (vops)
As simple as the title suggests, you will need an origin point and a target one to drive the direction and the collision model, I...
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- Sep 2, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Fixing (overlapping / intersecting) mesh for cloth sim
A tool I developed while working on MBC Ramadan TV spots, you can check them here.. I was tasked with cloth sim and some of the...
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- Aug 13, 2019
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Houdini Flag
A simple setup attaching a piece of cloth to a string using Vellum. Download... #Houdini #cloth_sim_with_thread_pulling_cloth...
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- Aug 5, 2019
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Houdini Black Hole (Redshift)
The problem with the previous mantra setup (https://vimeo.com/333709972) is that it was really slow to render, and now with the redshift...
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- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Plexus
Tool's features: - Two wire zones (text, environment) - Wires and source count (global, text, environment) - Drop based on length (you...
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- Jun 2, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Hologram (animated object)
You asked for it and here it is, Built on top of the original Houdini hologram tool: https://vimeo.com/308812994 Now the tool support...
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- May 2, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Black Hole (mantra)
Got motivated by the event last month "The supermassive black hole at the core of supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87", and OMG it...
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- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini stick scatter points to a deforming model
A simple trick but crucial to stick scatter points to a deforming model. Download...
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- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Recursive Fracturing (Particle solver Stage 02)
As I promised stage 2 is here and I'm confident it contains everything you need to create an amazing Recursive Fracturing, well don't...
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- Mar 9, 2019
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Houdini Recursive Fracturing (Particle solver Stage 01)
It took me some time to wrap my head around this technique, it's getting pretty complex fast so I broke it into two stages, the first one...
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- Feb 3, 2019
- 1 min
Houdini Rock Generator
Tool's feature: - Creating deep and shallow cracks. - Horizontal or vertical stripes of your choice. - Color visualizing on point color,...
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- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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