Continuing with our KarmaXPU quickstart, this video covers reading custom attributes into a MaterialX shader and using it to drive the look of our material’s subsurface scattering. Download Project File
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KarmaXPU Quickstart Pt. 0 – Creating Our Test Geometry
It’s finally time we talk about Karma again. Nope not your spiritual system, but Houdini 19.5’s built in new’ish rendering engine. It’s been making quite fast progress since the time it’s been released a few versions back, so in our opinion with KarmaXPU being in […]
New In Houdini 19.5 Pt 2: Karma XPU Beta (MaterialX, Solaris)
Mo visited the Art Gallery of Ontario and got inspired. In This video he’s using Solaris, Karma XPU and MaterialX to shade and render the sculpture created in this tutorial. Download Project File
Test Driving Houdini 19: Karma XPU, MaterialX And A Hidden Gem
Houdini 19 has been released and Mo is taking it for a test drive. As far as you can drive any software. (I mean a car’s firmware you’d definitely drive…) In this video, Mo builds an abstracted sculpture out of minimal surfaces by using H19’s […]
A Procedural Polka Dot Shader with Analytic Normals
Today we’ll build a procedural shader that produces a polka dot pattern. While this is quite informative, as we learn how to tile the uv space, the interesting part is creating the normal map. We want to use the implicit sphere equation to derive z […]
Rendering 101 pt. 14: Photon Mapping / Caustics In Redshift
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Rendering 101 pt. 2: Theory- Materials, BxDFs, Fresnel & Microfacets
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Modeling and Rendering a Quartz Crystal in Houdini 16
When testing out a new render engine (or any tool that can do rendering), one of the typical objects I try to get a decent image of is a quartz crystal. In order to get that right, a rendering needs to contain effects such as […]