Alright! Such a long time since I posted anything. Fun to have a project going again! I'm wokring on a rock cliff generator in Houdini with the end goal of making something that's game ready and setup for texturing. It's a portfolio project for school (studying technical art) and I'm very new to the software. The idea came…
Hi Have watched the Houdini bridge demo twice now but am confused as to how to exactly mix 2 materials using the Bridge Houdini Livelink feature. In my case I want to simply layer a grunge texture on top of a marble texture. Also with Redshift is it necessary to use the Triplanar workflow when mixing materials or can I use…
Yo Polycount, I'm having a bit of trouble finding some info on this topic. The only thing that I've found that comes close is this dead thread: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/53784/ ". . . in Houdini is how to handle copying pre-made modular sections along a curve while still maintaining the original size of the input…
I have seen that a lot of people that create game assets inside Houdini when they reach the UV phase they simply connect an auto uv node that results in a distorted free uv map but with hundreds and hundreds of shells but they call it a day saying that it's all ok... For my workflow ( in Maya ) i usually unwrap manually or…
I'm sorta new to Houdini and have been following quite a few tutorials including buying some on Udemy. This is my first time trying to build something from scratch without guidance and have run into my first blocker. I'm trying to generate a fence which consists of a curve and an HDA that generates the wooden board. The…
I didnt know where to post this but it seemed the best place. Does anybody here use Houdini? if you do is it easy to use? or personnel experience would be helpful
Hey guys, I`m studying Houdini FX, I really liked the ``plugin system``, like Maya to create the effects, if you have any tutorial source or tip I really appreciate. Thank you!
I finally decided to start learning houdini. Its actually not as hard as it seems at the first look, at least after watching the "houdini isn't scary" tutorial series on youtube. It teaches you some important basics. After that, I was able to implement own ideas with minimal google searching, since im still not very…