Been going through a few of Jeff Wagner’s feature presentations from a the last few Houdini releases and stumbled upon a gem which I thought I’d base a setup on: Controlling FLIP fluids using a curve. Throw in a tiny bit of VDB/VEX magic and […]
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Bubbles Again: Simulating Soap Swirls Using FLIP
By now it might have become apparent that Mo might be a bit fixated with soap bubbles and soap films. We covered Minimal Surfaces, soap film shading in Octane and in Redshift. Yet we deliberately omitted one crucial step in rendering nice soap bubbles: Creating […]
Sloppy Unreal 02: Setting Up Raytracing & Generating Normal Maps In Houdini
Part two of working sloppily in Unreal covers setting up raytracing and materials. Also we’ll tackle the generation of normal maps from a grayscale image in Houdini, talk a bit about different approximations for the Fresnel term and finally poke around in Unreal’s console in […]
New In Houdini 18.5
Full Playlist Here Houdini 18.5 is out! And here are the features that got us excited! Of course there’s much more. (SOP based rigging anyone?!) We had great joy in seeing that Karma has come a long way and that real time pyro sims in […]
Workshop: Unreal Engine Quickstart
Full playlist here. Super hyped to have Matthias Winckelmann on board! You might know him from “Rachael is not real” where he built an AI design influencer bot that posts daily renderings to instagram. Matthias has been using Unreal Engine in his personal design process […]
Rendering 101 – pt. 30: Redshift In Solaris – Specular Lighting
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Exporting Alembics For Blender: A Few Hacks
EDIT: Thanks so much for the many comments & hints! Josh Rizzo on Twitter pointed out I’m missing a few import options when loading in the alembic. Here’s how to import animated attributes without a deforming/animated mesh:– Import Alembic– Check “Set Frame Range” and “Is Sequence” […]
Rendering 101 – pt. 23: Building A Procedural Wood Shader In Redshift
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Rendering 101 – pt. 21: Instancing In Redshift (Plus A Bit Of Shading)
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Rendering 101 pt. 16: Subsurface Scattering in Redshift – 3 Flavors
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Rendering 101 pt. 15: Volume Shading Principles Demonstrated In Redshift
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Rendering 101 pt. 9: Basic Setup – Octane
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Easy Soap Film Shader
By far the most frequent question we received after our minimal surfaces tutorial was “how do you build that bubble shader?”. The wait is over – in this tutorial we’ll go over how to build a plausible soap film shader in Houdini’s Mantra and Octane […]