How to Create Smokey Incense in Houdini

[@arvidurs]

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[@klauszwegert6382]

So for everyone who is wondering, one of the teachers from a vfx school is recommending this guys tutorials. We also looked at his journey were he worked over the years. So thumbs up

[@jordancassidy744]

Great tuto Arvid! Cool use of the lentil plugin too. Great stuff!

[@stanislavgavrilov4899]

You just made me realize that we have lentil in studio and I have to try it although we don't have much time to test it :D I love it!

[@monocore]

Break downs are awesome. I find them equally helpful compared to full blown tutorials. I do enjoy watching people do their thing and explaining the process.

[@arvidurs]

Thanks Sergio! It's also a bit easier to record :)

[@JohnnyFehr]

Nice Tutorial as always Arvid! And thanks for naming me :-D

[@dumpsterDeity]

Great video! You're a creative genius and a very good teacher :)

[@aliiraq9655]

Wow .. awesome .. thank you ..

[@nelpiper]

That's really nice. Thx for sharing it. I was wondering how did you get that Houdini interface colors? I don't like the default colors nor the gradient-like appearance of the buttons. Yours look like one continuous bar.

[@arvidurs]

Need to check - I got some theme online for it

[@monocore]

I've read that lentil uses a bidirectional apporach. I wonder if it would be possible to use a similar angle to tackle caustics. With a custom bidirectional shader.

[@arvidurs]

I asked zeno already :D

[@alightimages7401]

👍 Is Arnold fully compatible with Solaris at this point?

[@arvidurs]

They keep fixing bugs - but I think it’s pretty well integrated by now

[@alightimages7401]

@@arvidurs Do you recommend learning Mantra first if new to Houdini or go straight to Arnold?

[@arvidurs]

You can go straight to Arnold. That’s what I did too

[@alightimages7401]

@@arvidurs Thanks, I think I will. Looks like Karma is still far away from being fully-featured? And I'm primarily interested in GPU rendering

[@axe_fx]

@@alightimages7401 Karma is stable and good now, it has the same slow speeds of Mantra, Arnold has much better CPU speeds and a bigger jump with GPU rendering, but the GPU part is still not working in Solaris.

[@everydayfitness3004]

This is awesome! Can you make a tutorial more about particles with Arnold and Houdini? Thanks!!

[@KevRyanCG]

Where did you get the Arachnotron model? I'd love to be able to sneak a CyberDemon and a Doom Hunter or two into my lovely bokeh background

[@arvidurs]

haha I didn't even know what they were :D not sure where I got the from, found them in one of my vast model libraries

[@electroheadfx]

can you share your houdini UI color, I love it. Great new tutorial, thanks a lot.

[@tomsquad1979]

Have never worked in Houdini. Do you have an intro video for Houdini basics?

[@arvidurs]

Not really an intro, but I should make one!

[@metaturnal]

Is there a reason for you not setting up real size? The incense is a couple of meters long, if I saw that correctly.

[@arvidurs]

Yeah I did have some issues with the small scale to get proper sims. Very small voxel sizes needed - it’s not a deal breaker though as you can just scale it back to real size after sim

[@metaturnal]

@@arvidurs Ok, thanks for replying. Yeah of course, re-scaling is not an issue, I was just curious if there was a practical reason behind your decision.

[@super-six-four]

hey, Arvid. you only make anim.videos for Houdini and static renders for Maya. is it possible to make such videos for Maya too? :) this would be more interesting. best wishes

[@arvidurs]

only is a strong word :D but yes I can probably do them in Maya too. I just went houdini because of the smoke. Thanks for the feedback!

[@super-six-four]

@@arvidurs thank you for quick response! i think there are lots of Houdini "video" videos hahaha, but lack of it for Maya. /sry for my english; hope u understand me enough

[@axe_fx]

*little soldier* *tentacle thing in the back* man I love you but you are triggering me 😂😂

[@Palrakesh363]

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