We haven’t forgotten about the other big addition to Houdini with 20.5: The MPM solver! So to get into the holiday spirits, let’ s simulate a snowball. In this video, we’re covering the full process from simulation, to postprocessing and finally to rendering. Download Project […]
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Easy Houdini: Clay 3D Printing With Vellum
Let’s take a quick break from Copernicus and build a good, old fashioned, simple SOPs setup. And also recreate a look from additive manufacturing, that we like quite a lot here: 3d printing with clay instead of thermoplastics – which is mostly like regular 3d […]
Blender Guest Tutorial: Game of Life
Louis Brodnig is back with another great tutorial and a Game. Conway´s Game of Life to be exact. In this video he shows you how it works and how to make fun animations with it in Blender. Download Project File
ML101 – pt. 00: Introduction
This course is about making Machine Learning the next tool in your Houdini toolbox. Just like some problems are best solved with vector maths or Vex or Python, some problems get way easier with ML and we want to be able to spot these problems […]
Building a Particle Brush for Copernicus
One of those really fun party trick brushes of Substance Painter is the particle brush, with which we can, well, paint particles onto an object, which in turn will run down it’s surface, leaving some nice streaks behind. Houdini has had particles for ages and […]
Rolling Shutter – Bending Time With Attribs
Today we want to take an artifact from digital cameras, something that we usually try to avoid, and turn it up to eleven! Make it an effect on it’s own! And that artifact is rolling shutter. To achieve this, we’ll need to bend time using […]
Popping a Soap Bubble
Bubbles! We have a bit of a thing for bubbles here at Entagma. But the one classic Houdini setup we have not done yet is a bubble pop. So let’s fix this right now! Download Project File
AHTYA 2.0 – pt.33: SOPs vs DOPs
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Volume Style Transfer With ONNX
In an earlier episode we took a first look at the new ONNX inference node, a node that allows us to use trained neural nets inside Houdini. And today we want to use this node for something usefull – Volume Style Transfer! We want to […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt.32: Smoke Stick Part 3 – Rendering in Karma
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt.31: Smoke Stick Part 2 – Adding Details
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt.30: Smoke Stick Part 1 – Pyro Setup
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Melting Complex Objects Part 2 – Rendering
Welcome to the second and final part of our mini series on how to melt complex objects with fine details, textures and multiple materials. All without melting your pc as well! In the first part we built a setup to retain geometric detail and now […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt.29: Microsplash Part 2 – Adding Bubbles
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Melting Complex Objects Part 1
You guys seem to like melting things! So over the next two free tutorials, we’re going to answer one of the more common questions: How to melt more complex objects with fine details, textures and multiple materials. All without melting your pc as well! Watch […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt.28: Microsplash Part 1 – Flip Fluid Setup
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt.27: Vase Smash Part 2 – Adding Particles
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Blender Guest Tutorial: Differential Line Growth
We are happy to bring you another Blender tutorial with the help of Louis Brodnig. He will show you how to create a differential line growth setup with Blender Geometry Nodes that he used in his short film about Emergence. Check out Louis work on […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt.26: Vase Smash Part 1 – RBD Setup
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Particle Life in Houdini POPs
Particle Life is a new(ish), super popular autonomous agent system that is able to produce very organic, microorganism-like patterns with particles. So of course we had to build our own version in Houdini, right? In this video we’ll cover the basic ideas of Particle Life […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 25: Dissolving Pill Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 24: Dissolving Pill Part 1
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 23: Houdini Simulations Overview
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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 […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 22: Swirly Rocks Projects Part 3
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 20: Swirly Rocks Projects Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 18: Swirly Rocks Project Part 1
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 10: Flower Tube Project Part 2
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Paper Folding with Vellum
In this video Chris covers a simple way of simulating origami like patterns in Houdini and Vellum, just using edge groups and (depending on how you count them) three or six lines of vex. We can very much recommend watching Junichiro Horikawa’s previous explorations on […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 06: Flower Tube Project Part 1
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Simulating a Belt Adjuster in Vellum
There are some setups that start out looking quite easy and then get harder the more you start thinking about them. And this belt adjuster is one of them because we got quite a few elements interacting with each other. As usual with Vellum, the […]
AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 05: Squishy Vellum Project Part 2
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AHTYA 2.0 – pt. 04: Squishy Vellum Project Part 1
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Simulating Curling Ribbons in Vellum
The idea for this video came from a question on our Patreon Community Hub, asking us how we’d go about creating curling ribbons in vellum, similar to a very beautiful setup by Playback Design. And, as it turns out, this is a quite fun and […]
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 6
In part six of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer modifies our solver so it works with discs instead of spheres. Download Project Files
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 5
In part five of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer modifies our solver to work with POP particles. Download Project Files
Guest Course: Creating a Rolling Objects Solver – Part 4
In part four of our free course on building a rolling object solver, Bastian J. Schiffer goes over how to use our setup to have objects rolling across displaced surfaces. Download Project Files
Geometry Nodes Simulation: Relax Points
Often you’ll need point distributions with non-overlapping points. Be it that you want to pack scales onto the surface of a fish or distribute vegetation on your procedural terrain. Although the “distribute points on faces” node comes with a poisson disc mode to remove overlapping […]
KineFX 101 – pt. 24: Flower 02: Blossom
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Chainmail Part 2: Deform the Chainmail Using UVSample
In this second part of the chainmail tutorial Manuel shows you how to create a Vellum cloth sim and how to attach the chainmail geo to the simulated cloth using the VEX function UVSample(). Download Project File
KineFX 101 – pt. 20: CFX Fur – Part 1b: Karma Hair Procedurals
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KineFX 101 – pt. 20: CFX Fur – Part 1a: Obj Level Workflow
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KineFX 101 – Pt.19: CFX: Muscles Part 2
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KineFX 101 – Pt.18: CFX: Muscles Part 1
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New In Houdini 19.5 Pt 4: SOP FLIP Fluids
One of the major milestones in Houdini 19.5 is the SOPification of FLIP fluids – allowing for a much more streamlined setup of fluid simulations. In this video Mo goes over the basics of the new workflow, including custom viscosity and density for our liquid. […]
New In Houdini 19.5 Pt.1: Tangent Fields (And a Bit of VEX)
Mo visited the Art Gallery of Ontario and got inspired to test drive one of the hidden gems in Houdini 19.5 – Tangent Fields. Download Project File
KineFX 101 – Pt.15: KineFX & Vellum 2: Building a Balloon Character
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Giving Birth Using Vellum
Sometimes we get the weirdest questions. And we’re quite thrilled about them! This time our friend Patrick (https://www.altshift.de/) approached us with a.. let’s call it special Vellum setup and some questions about how to make all Elements interact properly and animate them. Resulting in whatever […]