All Posts tagged “snow

Falling snow landing on a twig, simulated with MPM in Houdini

Smol MPM: Falling Snow

Not every simulation needs a ton of RAM, a supercomputer CPU and massive amounts of storage. Let’s embrace smol sims, even with complex solvers like FLIP or MPM, and build a relaxing winter scene that takes just 10 minutes to sim and 5GB of cache […]

Throwing A Snowball With MPM

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 […]

Creating A Procedural Snowflake

we have something special for the upcoming holiday season for you: Snowflakes! This was the very first paper I ever implemented in Houdini – what a feeling! I recorded it a while back in summer but then decided to wait until the right season. As […]