Advanced Scattering in Houdini 18.5

[@flashgiz1]

21 seconds in and I already learned 2 very useful tips. 1. It's nicer to have lights in the viewport while using high quality lighting with shadows . 2. Alt-click to merge nodes :) thank you!

[@i20010]

Thanks! I havnt noticed that sneaky alt merge!

[@ACES-BRAZIL]

Houdini is tiring, complex, I only have one life to live, I can't waste it with a poorly made software!

[@junzheshen3343]

Super useful! This allows me to do so much more without writing VEX myself and not jumping back and forth between heightfield scatter and scatter.

[@irql2]

That was neat. I love watching these videos and seeing what kind of stuff you guys can come up with!

[@borissolaris4421]

Simon is the best as always!

[@trulycreative9795]

super well put together, and with a lot of attention to detail!

[@slick3d392]

For sure has inspired me.

[@AllmakeDesigner]

I think this is good start to make procedural Rocks in game fx like ground attack and similar. Thank you

[@ShariSolo]

Flawless explanation. Thank you, Simon.

[@andvfx]

Very cool, straight to the point, thanks!

[@JohnLarryGroff]

This is extremely helpful and well-presented. Thank you for putting this together.

[@jinhoonchung]

Flawlessly presented. Thank you!

[@MortenKvale]

Awesome, thank you Simon for all you educational content!

[@juliengherlenda9476]

Love that ! Looking forward to others tutorials

[@gotim8818]

God Bless You ! Sir ! It dose Help me a lot ~

[@ianward5779]

great video, really clear and easy to follow.

[@hiratrq]

Great tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much, Simon!

[@SveGalabov]

thank you :) i wonder if i can do some manual tweaks to the procedural build such as using attrpaint to mark/block areas of the mask myself... Just for more control...Will give it a try

[@juancarlosgzrz]

how do you randomize rotation and scale after scatter?

[@minhtri4881]

Hi Simon, i tried to use this for dopnet1, but there is a warning said object contains duplicate values for the "name" point attribute, when i run the simulation, the rock just drop through ground plain, is there any way to fix this, thank you!

[@MissEldira]

are you able to stop the objects from clipping into each other?

[@simonhoudini5074]

The scatter and align node outputs a pscale, which holds the distance between points and can be used to scale models nicely.

[@BradASchreiber]

On 18.5.351 maskbyfeature the Group is not showing up. I have the group node under the grid as in the tutorial.

[@planebreach]

Is there any way to reverse the scale of the scatter ? I mean if the mask is fading the object are larger. Can we do the opposite - when the mask is more thick the object - larger, when the mask starts fading - they become smaller.

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

Really nice! Is there a way to do this with instanced geometry with a material and uvs? I have not yet found out anything about this.. No matter what I do, my assets remain grey.

[@simonhoudini5074]

Material and uv are support by default in Houdini instances

[@smithpark87]

I'm studying while watching this tutorial, but I think I eat it because the rotation value is not properly applied when I apply it with mechanical parts.Is there any tip? I want to make the machine look like it's in the tutorial.

[@caspgin]

So the intersection of geometry is handled automatically?

[@junzheshen3343]

Yes, just like the heightfield scatter.

[@graphic-nations]

how is your view port look awesome with shadows?

[@laplanddream]

So nice! Could you share hip file for 2nd example please

[@dnch]

nice, by the way hod do you get such nice lighting in viewport?

[@junzheshen3343]

Middle shelf. Change the lighting to the third one. But it depends on your hardware, cuz it takes more computation.

[@simonhoudini5074]

Look at the light bulbs on the side of the viewport and use the high quality one. Further add a sky light in the object level

[@JonasJCom]

awesome

[@fran.fernandez]

how u get that nice render in the viewport?

[@simonhoudini5074]

I have a video about lighting in the viewport of Houdini if you are interested in that

[@filmeseproducoesaudiovisua9969]

Bro very cool 👽

[@chrisgg]

Amazing. My sciifi ring version just looks a swiss cheese :) Will you share the HIP on Gumroad?

[@xrossfader]

Wait a second… you merged without a tab key… hot key setup??

[@simonhoudini5074]

Select multiple nodes and hold ‘alt’ , while dragging an output of a node

[@mrGr88n]

@@simonhoudini5074 could U please say how to make that parameter pane pop up over the network view pane (in ur top right corner). I'm searching for this info for 4 hours already =)

[@brianberk8035]

I followed your tutorial but scatteralign isn't scaling the copied spheres at all.

[@brianberk8035]

maybe the 2022 version is different? the copied spheres overlap and there's no interpolation option in maskbyfeature. i was able to get a slight scaling effect by turning off "calculate directional mask" in maskbyfeature, but it just isn't working like your tutorial.