Intro To Houdini Solaris - Full Beginner Course

[@ojdesignmotion1589]

The guy who made me love Houdini! Much respect

[@voxyde]

Best comment :)

[@Hoodini_GB]

Hands down one of the best tutorials i have ever watched

[@voxyde]

Thank you!

[@Hoodini_GB]

@@voxyde hey Voxyde i would love to connect and get advice on some of my own work. do you have LinkedIn? if so could we connect?

[@bUildYT]

Perfect, u have no idea how perfectly that fitted into my learning progress :O

[@voxyde]

Glad I could help!

[@bUildYT]

@@voxyde is this the main industry workflow? or r Hollywood pros using other tools/pipelines too? (i know a lot have intern tools which r not available for public, but those who use all big public 3D programs, this right here is the best most used way right)

[@voxyde]

@@bUildYT The really big studios have a lot of pipeline tools they built internally, but a lot of smaller sized and even medium sized studios are starting to adopt the USD workflow, because it's all given to you for free since Pixar made it publicly available. And when it comes to USD, Solaris in Houdini has by far the best implementation and most tools to author USD files. This is why I invested a lot of time in learning it, because I believe it's the future.

[@bUildYT]

@@voxyde a freaking mazing! (doing ur ultimate VFX workshop rn too btw, so good!) did u tip ur toe into Ai implementation too already? because no matter we like it or not, thats part of the future too...

[@voxyde]

@@bUildYT Haven't tried anything AI yet. Coming from traditional arts like drawing, AI is an abomination to me haha, or at least generative AI. If AI can speed up simulation times somehow in the future though, I'm all for it. Great to hear you're enjoying the workshop!

[@BillyCoopDraws]

Bruv, I have been hitting Houdini so hard for so many months. Your series, right here, brought all the fragmented patchworks together into a single, unified quilt. The community needs to take note, this is how to convey complexity. By keeping it realistic, and simple. Plenty of time for complexity in the future. But there is no time to waste, when pouring a foundation. Thank you so much for understanding, then sharing.

[@voxyde]

Thank you that was the plan exactly!

[@marcolondero]

This channel is a pure gem. Thank you!

[@voxyde]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@philippwelsing9108]

Man, this is SO useful. Many thanks for your amazing work. It's greatly appreciated.

[@voxyde]

You're very welcome!

[@rishirajmitra2017]

My god, I needed an all in one approach for Solaris. Huge thanks!

[@HOT3D2520]

I really admire your sincerity and dedication to teaching Houdini. Thank you Master of Houdini .

[@TaekOhFX]

Thank you very much! I cannot express enough how much I appreciate it. Without you, I couldn't have switched from Redshift to Karma. I'm glad that the Houdini community has someone like you!

[@voxyde]

Great to hear!

[@MBappy007BRBD]

Perfect, u have no idea how perfectly that fitted into my learning progress. huge shout out for you bro. I really appreciate your efforts

[@didakhouly3725]

much love bro!! I'm fairly new to Houdini, let alone the Solaris USD workflow! this is amazing, thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge and thorough explanation !

[@voxyde]

My pleasure!

[@rurutie4764]

Just tried your Houdini Beginner Tutorials and I can say it must be the best beginner courses of Houdini.I will definitely try those level up courses after I finish them.

[@voxyde]

Great to hear!

[@creativepirates7825]

I just finished your 4 and a half hour lecture Now. You have made me feel more comfortable with Solaris, you are my Houdini hero!!! 🙌

[@voxyde]

Great to hear that!

[@jonosvlog9913]

Thank you for sharing these generous and gorgeous tutorials! That's why I love supporting you and purchase your stuff!

[@voxyde]

Thank you so much!

[@myasinesin]

This course helps a lot! Finally i can understand Solaris. Its looks much better and stable than Octane. Thanks!

[@voxyde]

Good to hear :)

[@martinchumillasballester]

Very clear and concise tutorial. The way you explain and organize averything is brilliant. Thanks!

[@voxyde]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aparajitninawe453]

superb. Much needed explanation. One of the best tutorials

[@guillaumerajaona2785]

I just finished your course. And it was awesome. It's been a long time I wanted to learn Solaris et thank to you, finally, I know the fondametals. Thank you! I want more now lol xD

[@UnrealEDD]

So grateful to you.... this video is directly going to into my Houdini playlist and from there to my monkey like brain please share more free tutorials even if it is a small tips... we appreciate you for helping us...

[@scarabrae]

Half way through - brilliant and nice and clear. Appreciated!

[@Vianavfx]

Man this is awesome. Really well explained. Thank you so much for putting out the time to make this. cheers!

[@voxyde]

My pleasure!

[@tailedworldbr]

Thanks man for this one! As always, top quality from your trainings.

[@bukidani]

Great job man, excellent walkthrough!

[@omidmotion]

I love your tutorials. easy to undrestand and practical and FREE :)

[@Dalilstudio]

bro you saved me, you mater houdini so easy i will check one of your course for sure

[@Copa20777]

Your really a good houdini teacher. Thanks 😊

[@rootytuners]

Phenomenally good tutorial! Thank you!

[@voxyde]

Glad it was helpful!

[@myanimalist]

Amazing tutorial. I've been looking to work in Solaris more directly, particularly with the Quick Surface Materials+Copnet, but didn't realize how powerful MaterialX is!

[@voxyde]

Glad it was helpful!

[@aboldmule]

Thank you so very much. I go back and revisit all your videos.

[@voxyde]

Glad you like them!

[@arireisner]

This is another great tutorial, thank you Voxyde! There is a Labs Tree Simple Leaf with a stem bend uv's and a basic color gradient that can be plugged into the 3rd input for the tree leaf generator as well.

[@voxyde]

Thank you Ari, wow I didn't know that haha. Definitely would've used it otherwise!

[@arireisner]

@@voxyde I love how there's always new things to discover in houdini, and many different ways to do things.

[@steviebez1]

Amazing tutorial well done!

[@voxyde]

Thanks a lot!

[@BrockCreative]

Incredible knowledge all for free, you’re the best

[@voxyde]

My pleasure, thanks man!

[@ArtStractStudio]

Great course, thank you so much.

[@towhidurrahman4686]

This is a great tutorial. Finally I have learnt something about solaris. Please make a tutorial on karma and materialx. Thank you a lot.

[@stxfano]

Phenomenal! Thanks so much for this.

[@voxyde]

You're very welcome!

[@Tawbzz]

great tutorial as always !

[@LunarContinuity]

Awesome tutorial this will save my time a lot, you literally damn brother 🔥❤️

[@kir11]

Wow! Very cool course! Thank you!

[@voxyde]

My pleasure!

[@saifsami_ss]

Very very helpful and organized course 🔥🔥

[@jeetlalmaurya1806]

thanks a lot sir you are amazing teacher of Houdini

[@mikkelmelby]

my man, our saviour, big ty

[@voxyde]

Haha thank you!

[@6rilllir6]

in-depth ! subscribed

[@6rilllir6]

thanks for all the info you're sharing, you're a natural when it comes to teaching. If I may, it would be really useful for many ppl if you know how to handle personal materials library / catalog / database in houdini/solaris to do a tutorial video on the subject, there's almost no info available about this (except maybe in usd doc I imagine)... I'm so tired of recreating materials over and over. I've seen some ways, with .hda, but it seems inconvenient. USD asset might be a way ? Since it's managing the texture when creating assets ? Well, I'd love your take on the matter !

[@devoid5377]

Really nice and organized content. Thanks! :)

[@voxyde]

Thank you!

[@Bag99Rom]

Nice! Thank you!

[@gaumeo4010]

thank you! Hope you can make more solaris workshop!

[@voxyde]

More to come!

[@UzairFareedFX]

that's fantastic 😎😎 I will cover all and share the results soon

[@voxyde]

Please do

[@XEONFX23]

Awesome!

[@jmbaug1229]

Beautiful content ❤ Thanks a lot 🙏🏻 ❤️ J.

[@voxyde]

You're welcome 😊

[@monirul3d]

Excellent

[@_toms3d_]

Thanks so much for this!😀At this part of the video: (1:01:45) I don't understand why you need to change the reference type to payload, I've just tried the same and it seems to work too (creating duplicates and changing the variant etc in stage manager) when left as 'reference file'..🤔 is it for another reason? Thanks!

[@voxyde]

You're right it seems to work! I don't remember why it didn't work the first time lol

[@mohanpugaz]

Thanks so much ❤

[@fernandocriativo3d74]

Thanks for sharing @Voxide! I was wondering at 01:58:00 how do you spin up the Y translate...seems like you are dialing up!

[@voxyde]

Hey there, use scroll wheel on your mouse while hovering over value. Hold ctrl + scroll to go in 1 increments, and alt + scroll to go in 0.01 increments. Default is 0.1

[@henrythejeditube]

Thaaaaaaaank you sir

[@MrRedPixelz]

made it to the very end, how do i use the render settings node to render out the sequences?

[@voxyde]

Ater Karma settings node you append a USD Render Rop where you can set the desired frame range and you can then Save to disk

[@mohamedazab3586]

Thanks

[@神奇的阿祯]

What are the advantages of Solaris over redshift's traditional processes? Which workflows are better suited for individual designers

[@voxyde]

The only downside of Solaris is the initial time investment needed to learn it. Other than that there's only advantages :) I highly recommend learning it for anyone, individual designers or otherwise.

[@abdullaharshak.n7870]

Everything works fine if I apply non uv based textures with instancer in solarisis. But the problem comes when the mesh has proper uv. I have a bee model which have proper udims tiles and textures. The texture looks fine before it got instanced. If I used instancer node in solaris. The texture goes black. After that a while I figure it out that the model uv disappeared or stretched after It passes through instancer node. Is there any solution to fix that.?

[@voxyde]

It shouldn't really affect the UVs when you pass it through the instancer. It might be a different problem

[@gclef101]

Is there a way to see how this course translates to importing a scene from Unreal Engine into Houdini for vfx and then outputting the vfx to nuke

[@yongruiliu6375]

thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnk u, i like this video

[@abishek1335]

USE physic only showing when i add "edit" Node. any idea why?

[@voxyde]

It's rather buggy and might change depending on the build you're using

[@gpk98top25]

❤❤

[@abdullaharshak.n7870]

Is Solaris’s good for solo artist. Because it looks overwhelming sometimes to work with. I am a huge blender user and houdini for simulations. After worked in blender. Houdini Solaris workflow looks weird for me. I agree that it is good for a team works. But as an individual solo artist or with small team. It is not suitable in my opinion for faster workflow.

[@voxyde]

It is good for solo artist! Once you get to know where everything you need is and how it works, you can be pretty fast. It's definitely faster and more efficient than the old SOP workflow. Can't speak for Blender though!

[@cr4723]

You'll be faster in any program than in Blender! This video shows too much. Many things shown here are superfluous. You dont need output nodes, you dont need paths ...

[@VishnuSuresh-ud9ry]

can u convert that frustum hdalc to hda

[@voxyde]

I'll look into it!

[@ramonlevyful]

Hi and thanks a tons for the tutorial! Can you say what are the specs for your machine - CPU, GPU, motherboard and RAM please?

[@rd-cv4vm]

sopimport has the option to bring subset btw

[@voxyde]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[@rd-cv4vm]

@@voxyde thanks for your tutorials

[@MizanurRahman-lx2qv]

sir plssss i am begging you ..please teach us how to render explosion using solaris in houdini.....i could find any turtorial ...whatever i do i cannot assign material in explosion in modern ..there are some videos but outdated...sir pleasae help

[@scarabrae]

Thanks

[@voxyde]

Most welcome :) and thank you!