Houdini 17 Masterclasses

This masterclass covers features of the redesigned whitewater system in Houdini 17. It starts with an overview of the major changes to the system. The new workflow is then demonstrated by adding whitewater to several simple scenarios, including a beach and a rock splash.

New Planar Patch from Curve tools in Houdini 17 open the possibility for simple tailoring. This masterclass goes over the process of designing a dress for Tommy, showing how the Vellum Drape node can be used to build clothing panel-by-panel.

Houdini 17's new Vellum solver provides exciting new multi-physics possibilities. This masterclass provides an overview of the available solvers; and addresses both their SOP and DOP incarnations.

The Heightfield Scatter node has be totally rewritten to allow hierarchical scattering, fixed point distribution and more. This video will explain the parameters and show how to wire up geometry for hierarchical scattering.

This two hour video goes through the basic workflow of creating terrains in H17. After explaining my basic workflow we spend a bulk of time discussing the new erosion model.