This is intermediate level.

Are the previous volumes (1 and 2) intended for beginners? I purchased them this morning but haven't started learning yet.

Unfortunately, no, I'm sorry. Chapters cannot be purchased individually.

Thank you! I'll be putting out a lot of content this year and next. I think you'll find as the tutorials progress, I'll cover more things like in the abstract effects course. Right now I am building up the tutorials, starting with intro and beginner content, and then moving into intermediate and expert level stuff.

@@adamswaab8013 that sounds amazing! Big thanks for putting all this quality content together. Looking forward to see how it develops further ;)

I have many cubes projects on my Twitter 😊 I will be covering one volumetric cube packing algorithm in volume 2 of this course.

Awesome that your coworker took this further. As an intro lesson this was about showing the concept of solvers, not taking this example all the way. I’ll point out that nearpoints is somewhat problematic, as that only gives you point-point collisions. You want to use xyzdistance() to get point-mesh intersections. You can also use intersect() to shoot rays from your points for collision detection(very useful as well).

Karma. The sample was rendered with XPU, but either CPU or XPU Karma will work.

Thank you so much! That's so kind. Would it be ok with you if I quoted you for marketing materials or endorsement of the tutorial series?

Yes, absolutely @@adamswaab8013 I've been doinng this for a long time and you can really tell when someone has the aptitude to not just teach, but inspire others to grow. And please let me know if there are any other ways I can be of assistance.

I may put up a tutorial about this at some point. It would take several hours to explain completely.

@@adamswaab8013 we are ready to wait for the tutorial as long as necessary. I think some people will buy the tutorial if you do. I will definitely buy it. Thank you.

Yeah, I do a bone chain that has subdivided prims - so, for lower arm, it gets subdivided into 5 points. Then I grab the local rotation matrix for the hand, convert to eulers, get just the z component, run that through a loop that gives a % of it to the twist bones, set their local matrices, and then set the world matrix of the hand back to the original matrix.

Would love to see a tutorial on that,

@@18bovende I may put one out at some point.

No, no plans at the moment for re-release at the moment, but perhaps in the future. The kineFX toolset has new methods of working with characters, which made this workflow obsolete - that's why it was removed from Gumroad.

Hi WIlliam, Thanks for the comment. This tool should still work in Houdini 18.5 (untested so far, but in theory, it should work). I didn't attempt re-targeting because I heard inklings of a retargeting workflow being worked on for 18.5, so it didn't seem prudent. Now that KineFX is out and we see that everything has been moved to SOPS I will have to work on revising this to work in the new KineFX workflow. I'm not sure yet whether to pull this from the gumroad store or not in the interim. What do you think?