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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

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 4ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

    Amazing tutorial for everyone wanting to start with Houdini!

  • chris7c0 3ヶ月, 3週間 前  | 

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

  • leviathan1339 3ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

    nice

  • Shibadatt_Mohapatra 3ヶ月 前  | 

    Amazing Teacher whos has super power which is teaching

    • rmagee 3ヶ月 前  | 

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

  • Ishaksaidumohammad 3ヶ月 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 2ヶ月, 4週間 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 2ヶ月, 4週間 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 2ヶ月, 3週間 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 2ヶ月, 3週間 前  | 

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

      • zko99309 2ヶ月, 3週間 前  | 

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

      • zko99309 2ヶ月, 3週間 前  | 

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

        • archimage3d 2ヶ月 前  | 

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

    • Exogenetic 1ヶ月 前  | 

      A fix I found was to right click the UV scale in the ground_mat and "Copy Parameter". You can right click the other scale text field and "Paste Relative References" so you keep the scale uniform. Then double click into the ground SOP network and paste the relative references into the uvproject node's scale values. It's 100 by default, so if you change the value to "100/<pasted relative reference>" it should be driven by, and act the same as the uv scale in the ground_mat.

      • Exogenetic 1ヶ月 前  | 

        This is just in the event you have .440. I wouldn't recommend taking this fix into another version of Houdini.

  • Parav 2ヶ月, 2週間 前  | 

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

    • rmagee 2ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

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

  • MahdiNowruziani 2ヶ月 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 2ヶ月 前  | 

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

    • Brunken 2ヶ月 前  | 

      me too

  • Brunken 2ヶ月 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 2ヶ月 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 2ヶ月 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 2ヶ月 前  | 

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

    • rmagee 2ヶ月 前  | 

      Glad to hear you liked it!

  • Brunken 2ヶ月 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 2ヶ月 前  | 

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

      • Brunken 2ヶ月 前  | 

        It's happening again :/

  • LuxMax 2ヶ月 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 1ヶ月, 3週間 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.

  • Data5age 1ヶ月, 3週間 前  | 

    If your trying to figure out why you cant reference the .usd file when you look for it. Check the filter at the bottom if your using the Non - Commercial version you need to change the .usd to .usdnc. Hope this helps someone took me a bit to figure this out.

  • Mteves 1ヶ月, 2週間 前  | 

    Hi great lessons. Is there a video that goes more in depth about nodes?

    • Mteves 1ヶ月, 2週間 前  | 

      I'm trying to wrap my head around them

    • TheLazyIndianTechie 1ヶ月 前  | 

      Is this something you are struggling with conceptually or specific nodes? I think it helps to think of them as linear building blocks like legos. If you've ever done Photoshop, also like Layers.

  • prozolexx 1ヶ月, 1週間 前  | 

    Hi Robert,
    thank you for a great lesson.

    One moment i want to ask about is: I was struggling with assigning materials as i did step by step the same to tutorials but [in Geometry Tree] Creating 2 Geo and few versions of cup, ground and gumballs and I couldn't understand is it a Houdini error. On your video it was clean and one option for each.
    Maybe you can give me a help with it?

    Thank you

  • TheLazyIndianTechie 1ヶ月 前  | 

    This was an excellent series. Thank you so much. I love how modular Houdini is. Learning a lot. Looking forward to the other tutorials.
    Just wanted to say, Robert, you're a great tutor and thank you for making this accessible to us!

  • pads3d 3週間, 5日 前  | 

    Can this be completed with Apprentice please?

    Thanks

    • rmagee 3週間, 5日 前  | 

      It can - you just need to add nc to your various file names when loading then .hipnc, .usdnc - the lesson is designed to work in Apprentice.

  • vsr2080 2日, 22時間 前  | 

    I am unable to find match size from modelling video (houdini 2024)

    • rmagee 2日 前  | 

      Take a look at the PDF file that comes with the lesson - it should offer another point of view - the tool is there.

  • jenirohwer 1日, 6時間 前  | 

    Anyone else having trouble with the Filter List window? When I click on the Slap Comp button it says "Slap Comp warning: selected slap comp block deleted or unregistered. Slap comp disabled", and then if I right click, there's no Filter List option

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