rmagee
Oct. 31, 2012 13:18:31
Join Sidefx on Halloween in a spooky field then learn how to create a corn maze in Houdini using instancing
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http://bit.ly/RrAehn [bit.ly]
goldfarb
Oct. 31, 2012 18:04:59
nice!
mini projects are always a good idea
robonilla
Oct. 31, 2012 23:19:28
i love the fact that is themed
can't wait to watch it
thanks for your hard work SESI!
sjmcc1
Nov. 1, 2012 15:52:21
Thanks for this one. Love seeing tutorials on some actual projects. Looking forward to part 2.
n0mad
Nov. 2, 2012 02:20:07
Thanks. This is been very useful.
JuanDos
Nov. 10, 2012 06:59:03
Very helpful tutorial
Best regards
Juan
Banks
Nov. 10, 2012 09:25:46
Out of Gigabytes of Houdini training I own, this stands out as one of the most informative, practical and instantly re-usable.
As I am massively impatient - any news on when we can expect the follow up chapter (COPs)?
Many thanks again for providing such awesome training.
Banks.
whythisname
Nov. 12, 2012 05:51:39
Cool stuff, pretty a-maze-ing. (sorry I couldn't resist xD)
I'm also looking forward to the next chapter, I really want to get into some procedural texture/material stuff so I'm hoping that next chapter will give me something to go from
nbush
Nov. 12, 2012 12:56:10
Awesome tutorial and beautiful end product. Great work!
openstheway
Jan. 3, 2013 09:39:43
really good tutorial thanks
whythisname
Jan. 7, 2013 10:28:35
Does anyone know when part 2 of this tutorial is released? Or have I missed that?
xtianst
Dec. 17, 2015 10:10:50
Does anybody knows about the follow up tutorial?
Please!!
Ishan
April 11, 2016 04:12:49
Just wanted to say thanks for the great tutorial and ask if by any chance we can have the second part as promised. It would be really great to see hoe COPs where used in this project. Thanks!
Jonathan Moore2
April 12, 2016 10:30:52
I recently watched this myself as I was looking to see where ‘old school’ instancing sits in a world of packed primitives. Namely are there still advantages to using instancing over packed primitives? And the pleasant answer to my surprise was that instancing is still a great workflow for this type of shot. It's memory efficient, and there's less juggling involved with material assignments/variations.
So my question now is - do the engineers at SideFX see the old instancing system as a deprecated technology? If not what are the advantages of each approach in their ideal usage scenarios.
old_school
April 14, 2016 13:36:32
I don't see point instancing going away at all. Many reasons why.
Biggest one is backwards compatibility.
Object level point instancing allows you to instance render any object, including lights very easily. And with light instancing on to points, if they have Cd, the lights inherit that colour. Common to instance lights for certain effects in Mantra.
This instancing method is also quite portable on farms in that the ifd contains the geometry to be instanced. Great for small objects that are instanced geoemtry.
Packed and Alembics have their benefits as well but old school object level instancing isn't going away for now.
Btw Alembic was never designed to do instancing (originally). It was designed to generate efficient archives of massive sets of dumb static cached geometry deferred rendered in to a viewport and to a render engine. This where the render engine has to unroll the archive to find the geometry. This step does add minor overhead to rendering these types of deferred archives.
Jonathan Moore2
April 14, 2016 14:31:42
Thanks Jeff. You've just reassured me that me that my natural inclination towards instancing in many situations is sound.