Hacking Heightfields (tutorial)

In this tutorial we'll take a look at how we can take Heightfields, bake out some textures and apply them to 3d objects.

[@sudaismuhammad2235]

this video was not too fast . it was just right. I love this video pattern. the timing was just perfect. thank you.

[@PaulEsteves28]

I appreciate the comment. I do find talking slowly hard, so, I'm glad this was was at a good pace! :D

[@sudaismuhammad2235]

@@PaulEsteves28 No your talking pace is just fine, regardless of you talking slow or fast, I love that you can talk fast I love fast talking too, but what I meant was that there weren't allot of Cuts in your video. It felt like a tutorial. Your videos are usually very fast beacuse of the video cuts. Not that you talk fast. (I'm your huge fan)

[@MotionPunk]

Lovely!! keeping me warm in my houdini mindset!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Whatever it takes to get you back into Houdini ;)

[@tedleswer8903]

Perfect pacing- thanks Paul!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Appreciate the comment, thank you.

[@LucasNoce]

wow thank u ! HeightFields are so useful, will give this a try ! Cheers from Argentina and thank u for your content ! It really means a lot a lot of what u been doing with Houdini so far... from the short tutorials and now this " longer ones " thank u!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks so much Lucas! Glad you find them useful.

[@davidjmc1995]

Very useful. Thank you Paul.

[@PaulEsteves28]

You're welcome, I appreciate the comment.

[@Noah-qd4ts]

Gold! Thank you for sharing 🎉

[@PaulEsteves28]

You got it Noah! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@korf.design]

Awesome!

[@felipeamayaq]

Awesome stuff, Paul!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks Felipe!

[@dirtcreature3d]

Yesss so hyped for new content!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Oh you know it.. HOUDINI TIME!

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much, Paul!

[@PaulEsteves28]

My pleasure, I appreciate the comment and support! :)

[@philippwelsing9108]

So much inspiration. Love the shading part. Should you ever feel like making a tutorial about material blending & using masks in shading (and what you could prepare in SOPs for that) - I think that one is generally still missing. Thanks your your AWESOME work.

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks for the comment! That tutorial i can definitely do. I'll add it to my list.

[@philippwelsing9108]

@@PaulEsteves28 Oh my god. That would be incredible! Thank you, Paul.

[@umbravirtus2]

as always clean tutorial

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thank you!

[@sebastianlivingston]

Hey Paul, thank you very much for the tutorial. This is very helpful. What the best way to get more definition on the heighfields, I tried bigger exports and smaller spacing but I'm still not getting sharp edges. I need to blur it and I loose some of it.

[@PaulEsteves28]

Hmmm, that's interesting. is it the rendered mesh that isn't subdividing enough or is it the HF not being sharp enough? I would imagine a 16k 23bit exr would store incredibly sharp textures, but, I've never really tried as I've not needed something at that level.

[@carloalleva6513]

Great man, keep going!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks Carlo!

[@user-hd7eg2dg6m]

Hi Paul! Thank you so much for always making clean and amazing tutorial! Just wondering is that possible to make the export displacement seamless?

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks for watching! Hmm, I don't think there is a way "out the box" to make them seemless. Maybe with one of the labs tools. Like meshtiler you could?

[@yutaofang9998]

@@PaulEsteves28 Got you! Thank yuu so much for replying Paul!

[@marcofontan7416]

So nice, thx a lot 🎉

[@PaulEsteves28]

Glad it was useful.

[@tondann]

I am doing some typography motion graphics for work at the moment, so I'll definitely will try some height fields on my stuff :D never thought about using them on geometry, only environments

[@PaulEsteves28]

That's an awesome usecase. I'd love to see what you come up with!

[@tondann]

@@PaulEsteves28 once it’s public I am more than happy to share 😊

[@MelsKim]

Thank u very much, Paul!👍😘

[@PaulEsteves28]

You bet ya! Thanks for the comment!

[@mellebernie]

Hey, Loved the tutorial ! There's something I am missing at 7:25, when you render the different maps. What is the process for getting .exr files please ?

[@user-mq5qx7zn1r]

Paul, thank you for the tutorial! Can one make export the hf output and add as a 3D texture (noise) to a 3D Volume? I'd like 3D print ceramic with hf textures. How would you do it?

[@PaulEsteves28]

It's a very interesting question. I honestly am not sure. One way would be to try read in the values of a texture onto the voxels and displace them by the texture, though it seems counter-intuitive to go from volume to texture back to volume. I wonder if you displace polygons by texture and then convert it into a volume if that'd be the smarter approach?

[@ModelWhatYouSee]

WONDERFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH PAUL! But dude, you gotta upgrade that background:) Put up some LED's or lasers or something:) I'm kidding, as usual amazing tut.

[@PaulEsteves28]

Ohhh, some LED lasers? This sounds amazing.. I'm adding it to my list!! ;)

[@shillingv6289]

Great tutorial, thank you! My English is not native and it was weird for me to hear at 6:19 Something like: - "Aimana use 4K" What type of accent is it? Paul reduce a lot of sounds in his speech. Most of them difficult to catch if you are not native speaker. 😅😅 Need to improve my language knowledge

[@PaulEsteves28]

haha, my apologies. I said "and in this case I'm going to use 4k." I'm from South Africa and I realize my accent can be quite strong. You can always turn on closed captions. KZbin is pretty good at auto generating these and MOST the time it's quite accurate. Thanks for watching!

[@zotake]

👏👏👏

[@troopxl666]

Thanks!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thanks for watching!

[@paoloricaldone6273]

thanks!!!

[@PaulEsteves28]

Of course!

[@yassinedjebbari4819]

YOU are the BOSS 😂🤩🤩

[@PaulEsteves28]

Haha, I'm screenshotting this for my wife.. She disagrees!

[@niczoom]

No fluff, too the point. Well dome

[@PaulEsteves28]

Thank you!

[@whf1836]

you'r my god

[@PaulEsteves28]

You're very kind, thank you :D

[@raimuhammaduzairfareed7628]

🥰😍

[@franciscoameijeira4878]

:D Thanks

[@PaulEsteves28]

:D thank you for watching!

[@asr59]

Are you Blender Bob's son? You sound and look similar