Hi everybody.
A SI user called Tom Kleinenberg (thanks Tom) showed me a great ICE tutorial by Mark Schoennagel in which several ICE strategies were used, and after contacting Mark himself, I decided to adapt those very same workflows to Houdini, as directly as I could.
The idea was to try to show both approaches to problems. On one side, a typical Houdini approach, and on the other side a direct translation of the ICE technique to Houdini where possible.
Please, if you are rather new to Houdini, your first step should be reading Jordi Bares "Softimage to Houdini guides
Then, check this IntroVOPsForSIUsers scene I shared a few days ago (attached below)
And then go for the tutorial.
As it is pretty long, I add here a summary of the contents so you can decide whether it´s worth your attention or not.
http://vimeo.com/89869747 [vimeo.com]
Just a little disclamer. I had to record this pretty late at home, and because it´s so long, I didn´t have the time to re-record and fix all my “humm..”s, “aaaah”s and “eeeh..”s. I appologize in advance for that. I hope you still find it useful.
ICE TO HOUDINI PROJECT TUTORIAL -Total Length: 01:23:03
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:02:40 - Emitting Particles
- 00:07:32 - Scale Attribute (pscale)
- 00:21:57 - Particles Orientation
- 00:28:26 - Instancing
- 00:31:08 - Wiggler Tool
- 00:41:11 - Monitoring and Optimizing Performance
- 00:47:40 - Releasing Particles (Groups “Vs” Ice States)
- 00:53:47 - Adding Forces to Particles
- 01:03:58 - Angular Forces
- 01:08:10 - Painting An Attribute (Custom Attributes “Vs” ICE Weight Maps)
- 01:12:25 - Asset Creation (Digital Assets “Vs” ICE Compounds)
- 01:18:40 - Quick Lighting, Shading & Rendering
I´m also attaching the Start and End scene files (for the end one you need the .otl file as well).