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All Posts tagged “dops”
New In Houdini 20: DOPs – POP Wind Shadow, Glass Fracture, Pyro Gravity And More
In this episode we’ll take a quick look at the new simulation tools and features in Houdini 20, specifically the new POP Wind Shadow, updates to the Vellum rest blend constraint and vellum brush, the new density controlled gravity in pyro as well as some […]
Smearing Paint using FLIP
We’ve been asked by Patrick how to pull off something like these beautiful paint smears in Houdini, so we got to work. Using basic FLIP techniques will get us quite far, we just have to find the right settings. (Haha. “just” finding the settings…) In […]
Production Setup Walkthrough: Color Dust Explosion
Happy holidays everyone! After my planned snow globe tutorial turned more into a disgusting alien egg thingy, I decided to instead dig out a production setup I did a while ago, doing the (very) popular dustsplosion.
Nerd Rant: DOPs
Recorded back in October when Mo was cranky due to reasons, Manu decided to discuss his (then) favorite topic when it comes to Houdini: DOPs. Turns out it is not so much Mo’s favorite topic. Watch this nerd rant to see us being cranky and […]
Houdini 17 Quicktip: Setting Up Colored Smoke
Smoke and mirrors! Well Smoke mainly in this quicktip. We’ll look at a few of Houdini 17’s new pyro features – namely the new sourcing workflow and the ability to (easily) color your smoke simulation using a mesh’s colors.
PBD: Dynamic Weave
Today it’s about dynamically generating a piece of woven fabric. Manuel explains how to write a VEX wrangle in the DOP context to generate connecting yarns in every frame.
Yarnworks: Wire Solver and Constraint Networks in DOPs
To complement our PBD Wire Setup, here is a tutorial on a topic I’ve personally been struggling a lot when I first tried wrapping my head around constraint networks. Similar to what we’ve been doing in PBDs, we’re gonna build a network of interconnecting wires […]
Easy Minimal Surfaces
This episode we managed to get away from our workstations and head outside to Munich’s beautiful olympic park. There we found some prime examples of the shapes soap films form when they evolve between metal wires.