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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 41m 22s

Welcome to Houdini. In this lesson you will start from scratch to model, render, animate, and simulate a soccer ball, also known as a football in many parts of the world. You will create a classic bouncing ball animation using the principles of squash and stretch, apply textures and materials, add lights and cameras, and explore the use of dynamics to simulate a group of soccer balls.

These tasks will introduce you to many different parts of Houdini as you create your first Houdini scene, explore the interface and discover some of its most important tools. You will learn how to work interactively in the Scene View and how to use the Network View to manage your nodes as you refine your model and build your animation rig. You will also set up materials and textures on the Solaris Stage then you will render using Houdini’s built-in renderer Karma, and finally create a Rigid Body Simulation.

CREATED BY

rmagee
ROBERT MAGEE

Robert Magee is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at SideFX who has been working with Houdini for 20 years. He has created lots of learning material and demos designed to help artists understand how going procedural with Houdini can benefit their work.

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  • Laura-89 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    Hi Robert. I am stuck on getting the sphere (create) tab. When I type in sphere, my options are Sphere (polygons), Sphere (primitives) and VDB to spheres...... I'm autistic and the PDF doesn't specify which one to choose. Also when watching the video, we don't actually see which sphere tab you click on. Please help.

  • Laura-89 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    It's ok. I figured it out. Go me haha! There was a sphere tab along the top, so I dragged it across and it gave me what I need :)

    • rmagee 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

      Glad you found it. Next time include the Section # and Step # or the video # and timecode in the video - it makes it easier to pinpoint where you are in the lesson.

  • LukeP 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    That k you for doing this Rob.

  • Laura-89 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    Houdini keeps crashing every time I try to change to Karma XPU :(

  • Lookdev Studio 3 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    My soccer ball's UV project it isn't correct.

  • GuyFawx 3 ヶ月, 2 週間 前  | 

    Hey Robert thanks for these tutorials I just wanted to give you a heads up and your probably already aware but this video ends at 9:15 and still goes on for about another 2 min of black. Dont fix it if you dont feel like it just wanted to give you a heads up in case thats something that would bother you. Thanks again for the tutorials keep them coming

    • GuyFawx 3 ヶ月, 2 週間 前  | 

      Video six is the one i was referring too

    • rmagee 3 ヶ月, 1 週間 前  | 

      Thanks - I fixed it on Vimeo

  • Angelman609 3 ヶ月 前  | 

    Hello Robert, thanks for the tutorial!
    Everything seems to be ok except that when I render my scene it comes without the Motion Blur. I double checked the render settings and can't find why.
    Any chance you know what's going on here?
    I appreciate you help :)

  • Angelman609 2 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    I fixed it, it's all good now.

    Thanks.

  • hanksan 2 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    Thanks for another great tutorial series! Karma XPU is very slow on my dual GPU setup. Is there a setting I need to adjust or does Houdini just work on single GPU cards?

  • henkeblomman 2 ヶ月, 3 週間 前  | 

    For some reason, I can't place the shadow thing. Like it just doesnt show up when i press shift + LMB

  • mu_kuie 1 ヶ月, 2 週間 前  | 

    Hey Robert!

    Any ideas why the display marker I've created doesn't show in my viewport?

    • vladHrd 3 週間, 2 日 前  | 

      I have the same problem. Have you found any solutions?

  • hrgiger 2 週間 前  | 

    Thank you for the great lessons!
    Took me a while to figure out that Onion Skinning doesn't work if you have Vulkan set as your backend instead of OpenGL.

  • brad-NBO 4 日, 19 時間 前  | 

    In the For Each Node lesson, I found I had to change the Visualizer's Style from Text to Element Index for the primitive numbers to display.

  • shiva.pavaday 1 日 前  | 

    As a beginner….the speed at which you navigate is way too fast. Don’t even get a chance to see what you are selecting. For a simple ball…it’s enough to demotivate someone. Even slowed down, your words don’t tie in with the action. So you select things in advance so when the instruction is received you’re already clicking onto the next procedural step.

    • shiva.pavaday 23 時間, 33 分 前  | 

      My bad…didn’t realise this was just an intro……my apologies

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