It does have a really steep learning curve. It has a lot of awesome tutorials available, though. SideFX themselves maintain a massive library on their site, and it has great documentation available. The community is also very helpful on the SideFX forums, and they have one of the best support teams I've dealt with. It…
I went through a bunch of different tutorials to learn the basics, but I haven't been following anything specific. I did originally go through the GameTutors stair tutorial to figure out the basic way to approach this piece, but their approach was so flawed I wound up changing 90% of it, and even that only covered the…
Well, I fucked up a little.You see, nearly every Houdini tutorial is made with VFX in mind. The biggest problem inherent in this did not occur to me until I started trying to work on UV mapping and texturing.Because of the need for normal mapping and the need to avoid excessive polygons or UV splits, you cannot have an…