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Houdini for Absolute Beginners
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About Houdini for Absolute Beginners
Introduction
Download Project Files
User Interface
Import Geometry
Geometry Grouping
Attributes
Attributes Transfer
Attribute From Pieces
Scatter And Align
Orientation Along Curve
Working With Chain SOP
Procedural Staircase
Create Houdini Digital Asset
Procedural Nuclear Cooling Tower
Tower Railings
Tower Base
Nuclear Cooling Tower HDA
Intro To VEX And VOP
Geometry Manipulation With VOPs
Noise And Ramps in VOPs
Importing Attributes In VOPs
Writing VEX Code
Projection Deformer In VOPs
Projection Deformer In VEX
Volume And Voxels
SDF Volume
Clouds With Fog Volume
Smoke Simulation
Exploring Pyrosolver
Divergence Field Demonstration
Large Scale Smoke
Write Smoke Cache
Setting Up ACES
Rendering Smoke
Creating Fire Simulation
Volume Deform
Adding Sparks In Fire
Rendering Fire And Sparks
Pyro Burst Source
Setting Up Explosion Sim
Adding Smoke Trails
Create Blast Rings
Rendering Explosion
Intro To POP Network
Particles Forces
POP Axis And Curve Force
Custom Particles Forces
POP Replicate
Particles Advection
Rendering Particles
Setting Up Growth Attribute
Particle Simulation
Render Setup
Setting Up Grains
Activating Grains
Render Grains
Grains Soft Bodies
Setting Up Basic RBD Sim
Fracturing Geometry
RBD Cluster
Boolean Fracture
RBD Activation
RBD Constraints
Vellum Basics
Vellum Soft Bodies
Vellum Pressure Constraint
Vellum Shape Match
Vellum Hair
Vellum Cloth Tearing
Vellum Brush
Vellum Grains
Basic Flip Simulation
Flip Tank
Flip Viscosity
Meshing Fluid
Rendering Flip Fluids
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What You Will Learn?
- Are you a beginner and want to learn all the Houdini effects?.
- Then I welcome you to Houdini for Absolute Beginners class..
- Instructor:.
- Hello, my name is Shahzad Ahmad. I am a Houdini FX Artist. I am passionate about creating Visual Effects (explosions, smokes, fire, clouds, dust, particles, magic, etc.), as well as all kinds of destruction and fluids. I am a self-taught Artist. And I love watching science documentaries and Sci-Fi movies!.
- By the end of this class:.
- You will be able to work in Houdini with confidence..
- You will be able to create procedural geometry in houdini..
- You will be able to create smoke and pyro simulations..
- You will be able to create particle simulations..
- You will be able to create soft body simulations..
- What you will learn:.
- Houdini procedural workflow.
- Geometry Attributes.
- Geometry Grouping.
- Scattering multiple objects.
- Working with VOPs.
- Writing VEX Code.
- Geometry data types.
- Houdini volumes.
- Building smoke simulation network.
- Building pyro simulation network.
- Working with ACES color space.
- Create particles FX.
- Working with grains.
- Create rigid body simulations.
- Geometry fracturing techniques.
- Working with RBD Constraints.
- Working with vellum solver.
- Create vellum soft bodies.
- Vellum constraints.
- Creating flip fluids.
- Rendering flip fluids.
- Rendering with Karma XPU.
- Is this class right for you:.
- I have designed this class for beginners who want to learn Houdini..
- What should you know or have:.
- I expect you to have some sort of basic 3D knowledge..
- You should have Houdini 19.5 installed on your computer..
- Join me now:.
- So if you want to learn Houdini and want to create procedural geometry and FX, then join me now. Hope to see you in the class..