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Dec 22, 20181 min read

RTX Opencl performance:

Using a simple Houdni pyro simulation. quadro P5000 / GTX1070 / GTX 1080 = 3:18s RTX 2080 = 2:05s Around 35% performance gain, that's...

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Dec 16, 20181 min read

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, 20181 min read

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 8, 20181 min read

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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Nov 5, 20182 min read

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, 20181 min read

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 12, 20181 min read

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, 20181 min read

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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Oct 2, 20181 min read

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, 20181 min read

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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