Houdini group by distance
It's a little trick I would like to share with you guys, if you were asked to group a bunch of points based on their distance to another...
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Houdini Tutorials / Tips&Tricks:
Welcome to my Houdini tutorial page, if you like what you find here and found it of a benefit please do consider supporting me on Patreon. See you there 😉
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Houdini edge selection to curve
Update: apparently Houdini has a beta tool for that under the Labs section called "edgegroup_to_curve", it will save you a couple of...
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- Mar 8, 2019
- 1 min
Sidefx Houdini Windows vs Linux
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,...
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- Dec 16, 2018
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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 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 2, 2018
- 1 min
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 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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- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
Houdini Benchmark Cores vs Clockspeed (updated)
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...
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- Dec 25, 2017
- 5 min
Houdini To 3Ds Max Workflow (Alembic / VDB)
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...
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- Dec 22, 2017
- 2 min
Using 2 GPUs to accelerate Houdini (OpenGL + OpenCL)
Latest update and still Houdini 17 doesnt support multi GPU acceleration specially when it comes to simulation tasks, but there is a...
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- Jun 10, 2017
- 1 min
How to switch to CPU Opencl
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...
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- Mar 19, 2017
- 1 min
Houdini Pyro for Fumefx artists (Object & Normals Velocity)
In this article you will learn how to achieve the same (normals & object) velocity you used to get with Fumefx but with Houdini pyro....
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- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
Compress Houdini VDB & Volume cache files up to 50%
In this article you will learn how to compress cache files drastically, we aren't talking about deleting unnecessary attributes before...
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