Hello, please this question is for anyone who knows how to do a realistic heat distortion in houdini. i am trying to birth particles out of a plane OBJ in houdini and would like to know how to create billowy smoke which causes heat distortion. can anyone help me please. Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

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if you want to send me a hip file to my e-mail, i am fine with that or just a tutorial is fine as well.

e-mail- demolski2001@yahoo.co.uk. please i want an answer on the 3rd of december because it is urgent and it is for a project i am doing.

The way it is done in comp is by using an image map to displace pixels. Same could be done in houdini.

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The way it is done in comp is by using an image map to displace pixels. Same could be done in houdini.

So how do i do that exactly in houdini. i have no clue how to use image maps to displace pixels. i would like a tutorial or some file that will show me how if you have one. Thanks

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https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini13.0/nodes/cop2/deform [sidefx.com]