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Sep 10, 20241 min read

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,...

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Aug 27, 20241 min read

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...

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Jun 10, 20241 min read

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. -...

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Apr 28, 20241 min read

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...

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Mar 9, 20241 min read

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. -...

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Aug 13, 20231 min read

Houdini Voronoi morph

Morph one object to another in a voronoi style, tool's features: - It's not a solver based, changes can be seen realtime. - Morph type:...

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Jul 8, 20231 min read

Houdini Flip mask stick on collision

Creating a custom volume stick mask around collision object to guide your fluid behavior (stick/slide) on that surface. I made it using...

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Jan 15, 20231 min read

Sort points by distance (Houdini file)

An attempt to sort two groups of points so each point will find its closest pair in the target group, and it works like this: - first we...

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Oct 18, 20221 min read

Glowy lake (Houdini)

I was amazed by this bioluminescent phenomena in Australia so I tried to mimic it in Houdini, nothing complex it's just a: - flip...

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Jul 6, 20221 min read

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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