hi, great tutorial. very easy to follow. only, I have question, Im at the part where you blur the background, and for some reason, no value of f stop will blur the background on mine. it seems to to have a slight blurring effect, but even down to 0 and past in to negative numbers or up and down to high numbers and no real change. and i don't like to move past a tutorial till i figure out why this happens, it happens in all tutorials for me. maybe I'm stupid :( but pls is there anything you can think of. i have restarted the render, i wait for the magic, and no magic. ty, and great channel. been helping me learn Houdini very nicely and i love how Houdini works, I am switching everything i can in my workflow to it.

You’re amazing Tyler thank you!

Wow this is so good thank you!

Thanks for that video. I use Redshift at work, but REALLY want to move most of my renders to Karma since i can't spend for and extra license just to render my own stuff. So any videos to help on this migration like this one, helps !

Thank you so much, i was struggling to randomly select a piece from a USD.

F karma lol

Thank you for this video! When I learned Houdini in 2018, caching & wedging felt like black magic fuckery - this has gotten so much more straight forward!

Thank you for this short guideline / direction. In today's AI dominated world I feel like being a good Houdini generalist is somewhat even bigger advantage - being able to generate 3D content efficiently with possibility to iterate a lot. I am dipping my fingers into VAD and Virtual production environments and having procedural HDA's within UE is big advantage.

Want fluid simulation, need more money, because more RAM... 🥲🙏

very well explained but what if i want a mask based on camera rays , i mean if i have 5 spheres in z depth and based on camera movement they occlude eachother and i want a mask based on camera ,only camera facing area dynamically occluded by multiple objects , wondering how can it possibly be achieved by Mask By Feature node . or if there is any other solution .

wish me luck sir, I'm learning both Unreal and houdini coming from a a background of these software: blender, MD, Substance, Embergen. needed this video!

Great Tutorial ! Thank you😍

I tried Houdini to set up character rig by following Houdini website's official tutorials few years back. It was very difficult because video apparently skipped major steps or it was quite fast. I got frustrated and gave up. As an animation software, sidefx should make it easy for character animation or it will remain a side show for main event.

I am struggling with material.. i try to import my fbx character and animation but when i try to send in Solaris, material disappears .. is there any way to add character and animation with material without assigning every single object

i just started houdini ,and my problem is .when i import all scene build to solaris ,its feel bit slow , is there any solution

Hi when I click on disable light at 33:40.. the model turns white as oppose to showing colors? did anyone else face this issue i m using Houdini Apprentice

Great test! Thank you for such a comprehensive work.

its weird.. I tried this to go in a -Z direction and It always travelled 1 in XY and Z. like it was only receiving a float to all vectors. Checked to make sure I was in and out Vector vel. I dunno why it isn't working

thank you 😍

my karma is not rendering its say no active renderer to save image from.

Good

Cool video, had no idea that 3d Generalist was even a thing. I had people turn me down saying I am too qualified but it was because my whole approach was that if generalist and I been drawn to Houdini in last couple years.

*Cries in 'keep a pulse on what studios are doing well*

You remind me so much of Andrew Kramer! Great content (:

Good that someone finally bringing this up

You´ve literally saved my ass with this tutorial. Thank you so much!

Karma is rendered everything so ugly

Solaris / Karma is a pain to set up. The materials are complicated. If I could define it in one word, it would be -bureaucratic-. Redshift is straightforward.

Thanks for camparing renderers which i strongly interested nowadays. Recently 20.5 was released, and i curious your opinion/perspective what is improved in karma and is it still redshift is better. Thanks for the video. Helpful. From korean houdini newbie

i keep learning and forgetting at this point i need a fat whiteboard notes arent helping

this was amazing! thanks for sharing this man

Very efficient and inteligent method! Thank you very much. You have really open mind. :)

thx for sharing

I was horrified at the terrible interaction you were getting in the IPR and then I saw that you are using a 1080. 😄 Great review/comparison. I'm primarily coming from Arnold as my main renderer for the last 5+ years, but the one thing that stood out for me in this whole video is your report of constant viewport crashes with the IPR. MASSIVE red flag. Maybe an issue with the 1080. Have you done any of these tests on a proper 3x/4x gen RTX card?

i will pick arnold

amazing video thank you so much

So new Karma XPU is adaptive and Houdini now have post-process effects (Slap Comp)

can i do this with a pyrosolver sop?

Well, honestly, that's the kind of overall statement I'd expect from someone who hopes to sell learning material to aspiring 3D artists. Pessimism would harm your business model - you're just as biased in that field, as OpenAI is regarding AI. ;)

Hey (for those who will read this comment) I want to learn 3D modeling and animation but with the rise of AI, I ask myself : Should I continue to learn 3D or not? What do you think?

Thank you for this very informative comparison. I really appreciate, that you are not using the Maxon marketing term “Solaris plugin”. My first attempt was Houdini 19 and for obvious reason I tried to get familiar with the Solaris Karma workflow. Having this said, I thought my Houdini FX 20.0.653 and Redshift 3.6.01 combined would be a great workflow improvement, seeing all the rendering results around...but it´s like going back to the old Mantra workflow. However, Solaris (especially Houdini GL) and Redshift RT are anything else then friends. For some Reason materials build up with RS Mat Builder are only displayed as default Material in the in the common Solaris Viewport (Houdini GL) so while adjusting Materials I always have to use Redshift RT. On the other Hand, using material X as mtlxshader builder, Redshift renders out the Base (incl. a attached texture map) and Specular section from the Standard mtlx without any problem. Trying to use anything else from this shader type (incl. the mtlxdisplacement section) don´t work. Something you also shouldn´t do, is adjusting the camera viewport from your active camera while using Redshift RT in comparison to Karma XPU. Because otherwise the viewport went into pure black. So, you are totally right, and I fully agree with you, when it comes to the pure comparison of render time. But taking for example material adjustments also into consideration, this topic looks different to me. So yes, Redshift and the traditional workflow is great and works. But when it comes to Solaris and its workflow using MaterialX and USD, this RS-Plugin is only a kind of pre alpha version of a Solaris Redshift Render Plugin. Conclusion: Redshift 3.6.01 is great if someone grew up with Redshift and/or the Mantra rendering workflow. For people that jumped into Houdini since the Solaris workflow has passed the Beta version and want to use it this way, pls be aware that you have to use a different approach then the common Solaris workflow if you don´t want to run directly into a bunch of trouble.

Not trying to be negative here… I think this is short sided. People who are at the top of the industry, for example Shaddy Shafadi think it’s game over. In an interview he showed an Ai and his concept with the same prompt and just admitted that the AI one was better. Reality is reality, it might not be pleasant but most liklley the need the need human work in the entertainment industry will be reduced greatly.

very cool technique

awesome!

It's suprisingly more intuitive than Blender's geo nodes.

Thank you Sir

whats ur take with Ai and houdini, will everybody be able to do that in 10 years? :/

Thank you! Really useful!

Thank you so so so much for this video! Really appreciate the work you put in and a very clear demonstration. ✨ One question I have is when I applied HDRI texture onto my Fill light, the enviornment doesn't change and remains black. Any guidance on this would be appreciated! @1:10:49 Note: Display Enviornment Lights as Backgrounds is checked on.

pffff dont know how and when, but somehow this video did not only introduce me well into houdini but also made me understand davinci resolve more than ever before, u r amazing!