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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 8m 32s

Take your first steps into Houdini as you model a coffee cup then use dynamics to simulate a collection of gumballs falling into it. You will apply textures and materials, add lights and a camera then render out the finished sequence. By touching all aspects of this shot, you will begin learning how to navigate your way through Houdini and its node-based workflow.

This lesson includes a step-by-step PDF which you can use to follow along the lesson supported by video tutorials.

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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  • adizepl 2ヶ月, 2週間 前  | 

    Amazing tutorial for everyone wanting to start with Houdini!

  • chris7c0 2ヶ月 前  | 

    2| In my Houdini 21 Apprentice, the shortcut to view the shape palette in the network view is Z

  • leviathan1339 1ヶ月, 2週間 前  | 

    nice

  • Shibadatt_Mohapatra 1ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

    Amazing Teacher whos has super power which is teaching

    • rmagee 1ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

      What a nice comment to start the new year. Glad that you enjoyed the lesson!

  • Ishaksaidumohammad 1ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

    Great videos. I really wonder how these short videos have more knowledge than many other lengthy videos I saw in YouTube. thank you sir, are a great teacher.

  • CarlosCarvajal183 1ヶ月 前  | 

    Great videos, Im really enjoying the learning process.

    Im using the Apprentice version and when I reach the moment to use de reference node I cant see the gumballs for some reason, any advice?

    • jasper.m.rynhart 1ヶ月 前  | 

      For users in Apprentice, when using the reference node, navigate to the file explorer as shown in the video. Then look to the bottom right of the window where it says "*.usd, *.usda "...etc. Here, you will need to edit it so it says "*.usdnc". This stands for non-commercial, and doing this should make your files show up (I had the same problem and that fixed it)

  • zko99309 4週間, 1日 前  | 

    Hello Sir,

    In this project, I follow and study step by step. In texture the grouond video,when I change UV scale to 5, 5 or 15, 15, the texture of ground is not change. How to solve it. I am using Houdini 21.0.440.

    • rmagee 4週間, 1日 前  | 

      Did you try to restart the renderer from the menu on the viewport?

      • zko99309 4週間 前  | 

        Yes, I tried to restart the renderer from the menu on the viewport.

      • zko99309 4週間 前  | 

        And I tried this in other computer, but I cann't solve it.

        • archimage3d 1週間, 3日 前  | 

          I had similar issues with that build, but the latest build seem to work a treat.
          It might have been Graphics driver related.

  • Parav 3週間, 2日 前  | 

    When i am exporting the USD File to get gumballs ready to add material and render its not exporting????

    • rmagee 2週間, 1日 前  | 

      Are you using Apprentice? You need to export to .usdnc for this to work in Apprentice.

  • MahdiNowruziani 2週間 前  | 

    Hi Robert ,this was a great tutorial for me and who wants to start learning houdini , tnx any way
    in the episode 4 i have not the <quick surface material> node in solaris
    i'm using houdini 19.5.4

  • Ishaksaidumohammad 1週間, 6日 前  | 

    I cannot Go through the chapter By clicking next or clicking on the specific chapter. :(

    • Brunken 1週間, 6日 前  | 

      me too

  • Brunken 1週間, 6日 前  | 

    Hi, I'm having trouble watching the classes. Yesterday I was able to watch normally, but now I want to watch lesson 2 and I can't click on it. I'm really enjoying the teaching method.

    • rmagee 1週間, 6日 前  | 

      We are looking to fix this as soon as possible. You can use the Youtube playlist in the mean time:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTvubECc4w&list=PLXNFA1EysfYmdgiVC1Ua6fCLd5GXuGYFS

      • Brunken 1週間, 6日 前  | 

        I didn't know it was on YouTube, I even forgot to look for it haha. Thank you! The platform is working again.

  • LuxMax 1週間, 5日 前  | 

    I really like this tutorial, it is packed with extra useful info in very manageable short chapters.

    • rmagee 1週間, 5日 前  | 

      Glad to hear you liked it!

  • Brunken 1週間, 4日 前  | 

    When I try to render the final version, my computer is running into an error. It restarts and displays: "Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. Stop code, system thread exception not handled (0x7E). What failed: dxgmms2.sys"

    I looked into it and it seems to be a driver update issue, but mine is up to date... I have a computer with an RTX 3080, i9 12900K, and 32 GB of RAM.

    • Brunken 1週間, 4日 前  | 

      I switched to the Nvidia Studio driver and it worked! It seems the latest version has some kind of bug.

      • Brunken 1週間, 4日 前  | 

        It's happening again :/

  • LuxMax 1週間, 1日 前  | 

    I have a question, I heard that Houdini units are meters. So the cup we have is likely 1 meter and a half tall?
    I tried to re-create the entire scene keeping the actual size of a cup, so around 0.1 tall and radius of 0.03 and 0.05.
    In order to make the simulation work I had to reduce the Collision Padding quite a bit (0.01).
    I can get it that in this kind of project is unnecessary, but is it a correct approach or am I missing something?

  • Ntwadumela 2日, 19時間 前  | 

    I got through it. Some changes since I last used it with release 19, I think. Most of the really great courses and tuts are gonna be unfollowable now, though. I just looked at a simple cloud tutorial on YT the other day, but couldn't get past the first few minutes since the cloud node has disappeared. Painful.

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