Houdini Beginner Tutorial | Growth effect using VDBs and Solver

[@VictorFrenkel]

Cool tutorial, thanks for sharing. :) Notes for viewers: For a much faster vdb from polygons, lower the frequency on the sphere before the mountain node to 4 or 5 (most of the important detail will still be retained, doesn't need to be so high). The assemble and unpack steps can be safely skipped, vdbfrompolygons understands packed geo (already packed in the copy to points node) and transform pieces will still pick up the orient attrs, which will also speed up playback at the merge node.

[@mickmeenan]

Thanks for that tip, helped me out my sim was amazingly slow when frequency was at 12, thanks man

[@howiseedatworld]

mate you are so happy at the beginning, but deep inside we know that houdini melts our brains ;D

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Ahaha :D

[@FaddyVFX]

Interesting approach, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I learned a lot from it, thank you for your time.

[@Corza]

Stuck at 14:00 . There is no attribute called orient and/or attribute randomize is not recognizing att orient for some reason. Ugghh. So annoying getting this far into a tutorial and not being able to finish it

[@Zealot_fx]

i am not able to randomize the growth.... i watched it like 6 times and still the growth is same! what am i missing?

[@JK-ny1sl]

Hi, you can put a Attribute Randomize between copy to points and the solver.

[@organicsludgeqt7037]

@@JK-ny1sl thanks I was wondering the same!

[@dinosaursneverexisted8985]

music is too quiet 0:00

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Tutorial starts at 2:17 ! if you're already familiar with the community / type of things you can do with the tut and our patreon you can skip the intro :)

[@psychedlicavfx6646]

man thanks a lot ! I only recently discovered your channel and spent the last 1 month finding out the exact starting point of the tut!

[@psychedlicavfx6646]

btw, awesome content and am really digging the interview series you guys have going!

[@sorational]

My sphere is not growing after I push the Play button. I have Houdini apprentice. Node attribvop1 is active. What else it could be?

[@sorational]

If I can't use Bind Export, what else I can do?

[@mariaastakhova7714]

@@sorational is copytopoints active as well? That worked for me

[@aim2777]

When I hit the play button the growth doesn’t start is there a reason why? Thanks for the tutorial!

[@Corza]

Same here

[@TheRubyc]

@@Corza Had the problem at first, too. Make sure that you clicked the attribvop1-node on active in the solver, otherwise the solver won't execute the math from the attribute vop.

[@rvdb3866]

@@TheRubyc Yes, that solved the issue! Thanks!

[@burakdag4931]

@@TheRubyc man.. THANK YOU

[@ПоликарпЕвграфович]

attribute randomize from minute 13 doesn't do anything in my scene. have tried to set a scene again - still no success. particles don't rotate.

[@Jordi.Legarre]

Hi, put an Attribute Randomize between the solver and the copy to points node.

[@Jesseweijer]

Thanks for the tutorial. To be honest very cool for having a first look into Houdini but if you run into a problem your on your own... It's a complicated program with lots of possibilities and the TAB menu has crazy amount of options compared to Blender.

[@mdhzq203]

Great job!!!! But I was wondering if you could merge this effect with Miko zambataro's growth tutorial and create something like a growing infectious jellyfish effect? Would really appreciate it if u could do a tutorial on this

[@rajeshrazz9244]

Great brother... Thank you

[@Ebcyy]

quelle est la différence entre se tuto et le deniers sorti pour les gens qui sont sur patreon ?

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Celui sur Patreon va beaucoup plus loin en montrant comment utiliser les noises pour générer du volume et comment on peut avoir des systèmes comme ceux que je montre au début dans C4D. Ça va beaucoup plus loin dans l'approfondissement. Ici c'est juste la partie "simple" 😊

[@skyveltr0627]

Très bonne vidéo ! Mais comment fait-on pour séparer les axes si on veut que l'effet de "croissance" ne s'applique que sur l'axe Y par exemple

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much!

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

You're welcome 😁

[@kyleadamsdrums]

100% not a beginner tutorial, haha.

[@kush9356]

True😂

[@humayan91]

Merci beaucoup pour un autre tuto incroyable :).

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Merci! Ravi que ce tutorial ai aidé :)

[@Atimo133]

Thanks a lot for that tutorial =)

[@zaycvrter8485]

Is Houdini good for creating unique Logo animations ?

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Nope, Houdini is a software strongly made for VFX, generative stuff et proceduralism. When it comes to logo animation, or anything "simple" Cinema 4D has tools to be more efficient.

[@psychedlicavfx6646]

@@MotionDesignersCommunityTV actually depends on the logo animation. Do check out the one we made with Houdini kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5S0kKmpr8tmaZo

[@BernardineDeLaat]

Houdini keeps crashing but I got to add the copytopoints. When I click on it, Houdini says permission denied! I downloaded the Apprentice version but it crashes every time when I try to add something.

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Please send a bugreport to [e-mail] including your scene file and as much infos as possible: You computer components, your OS etc

[@milesfeinknopf5204]

Anyone know why it won’t let me export it alembic?

[@tazzzy505]

probably because you are using the free version

[@jamelechorfi]

Nice ! Question qui n'a rien à voir par contre, c'est possible d'avoir le titre de la musique d'intro ? :o

[@SilvsFX3D]

*Amazing!!*

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Thanks!

[@Gireshahid33]

We can do this in C4D using volume builder and fields!!!

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Yes. But it's an Houdini tutorial. This tutorial is here to teach Houdini basis. We can often find alternative solutions. In the Patreon growth tutorial you go further in volume growth and you CAN'T go that far with C4D.

[@Gireshahid33]

@@MotionDesignersCommunityTV Yh

[@MBSJQ]

How do we export the vdb to C4D? Thanks

[@psychedlicavfx6646]

@@MBSJQ convert to polys, preferably unpacked then export an Alembic

[@MBSJQ]

Psychedlica VFX thank you

[@DreamyMoondust]

followed this tutorial only to realize houdini apprentice doesn't let you export animations... great tutorial though!

[@ThomasAlbos]

But you can file cache vdb in apprentice, so instead of using Houdini to mesh the volume you can export it as a VDB sequence then load it into c4d and use the volume mesher

[@TheBrtvideo]

thx u tonton

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

[@voxoking32]

YO MAXIIIMMEE

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Yooo

[@owonobrandon8747]

that french accent

[@uzaykisi1863]

Is this a beginner tutorial? Houdini is really scary

[@fahim618]

my headphone volume and PC volume both are full still i can't hear you well so please next time improve your sound. Thanks!

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Double check please because sound is okay on my side. Including on phone. Another person with sound problem?

[@jessiezus6093]

@@MotionDesignersCommunityTV the sound is very low, that's all but otherwise great tutorial!

[@DreamyMoondust]

@@MotionDesignersCommunityTV the sound is good for me. Thanks for speaking slowly enough so that we could catch up! Amazing tutorial!

[@dolchpower7339]

u can also do everything in cinema 4d as in houdini u just need to know how

[@MotionDesignersCommunityTV]

Ahah no 😀 Impossible to do a looooot of things in C4D that you can do in Houdini. Houdini has even simple things that C4D doesn't have like a remesher. If you're curious about C4D and Houdini please watch this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWish5WvfcyCq7M

[@md310]

Kinda ... Not really ... C4D falls apart with complexity and heavy scenes .. Houdini thrives in it.