Procedural Modeling Of Water Droplets

In this tutorial Manuel discusses a way to distribute water droplets on the surface of another object to make it appear wet and fresh.
00:30 Describing the base scene
02:15 Building the droplet setup
04:30 Setting pscale on the droplets
10:00 Theory: The double cross product
13:30 Implementing the move along surface node
17:30 Correcting for scale
22:20 Flattening the droplets
24:30 VDB Workflow
28:30 Moving the droplets into the surface
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Project File:
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[@edmungbean]

the 'move inward' using xyzdist and primuv was a perfect nugget, explained two arcane nodes working quickly with a setup simpler than most Xpresso nodegraphs

[@christopherpinto8804]

This is the best explanation of what cross product is I've come across. I finally understand it. Thank you.

[@henrycaspian4297]

Instablaster

[@mohamedhafeez1166]

Wow! And this is a free tutorial? Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Though the vector cross product took me to my high school days :)

[@poornimarao4515]

requesting for dynamic droplets, thanks for this one

[@Maniakelystm]

Amazing tutorial !! We always learn something with entagma !

[@fxleggo994]

I learned soo much!! Thank you as always Entagma

[@JoeBissell]

thank you for pouring all of this invaluable knowledge into our brains.

[@joncorv]

Awesome explanation of the double cross product. THANKS!!

[@juliusnepomuk]

Great! not too slow, not too fast, perfect for me!

[@risnandarmultimedia5296]

Thank you for sharing !! will try to improve it more to make it more realistic

[@kir11]

Very interesting tuts! Thanks!

[@yassinedjebbari4819]

This is incredible ! Thank you. Do you have an idea how to make wateer droplets slide like real water droplets in real life ? Maybe using Flip

[@sagarthapa3765]

Amazing

[@muhammadabdlhadi.9348]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge, can you please explain how to animate your amazing water drops .

[@viktorbobkov9112]

Cool!!!

[@3dpuccio]

Thank you for this awesome content level, great rhythm; it's so pleasant to follow this tutorial; thank you again. One question; what happens if the geometry changes? How can I stick de mesh of the droplets to the surface? I tested it with an alembic geometric with deformation, and the droplets don't follow along the animated surface.

[@3dpuccio]

Got it =) I used the Attribute Interpolate node. ------> www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/scatter.html

[@Entagma]

Hey Carlos, glad you found a solution :) Cheers, Mo

[@eobiri]

Thanks, can you please do a video on "POURING" liquid? Thanks!

[@therealkevinleee]

Does thidethod work on liquid sims?

[@TheSiimur]

how would you animate these as if its raining ?

[@user-co4eo8px2e]

i cant promote the little vop nodes. i use imac . im sad

[@Entagma]

Don't be sad. Be awesome instead!

[@janardansutar694]

project file is not on link

[@Entagma]

Link is fixed. Thx for letting us know. Cheers, Mo

[@skunchtv]

is that not a gourd?

[@Entagma]

In German this falls under the very broad category of "Pumpkin" or "Kürbis", particularly "Zierkürbis" (literally "decorative Pumpkin") ¯\_(ツ)_/¯