Destruction FX

DESTRUCTION FX

Houdini’s industry-leading Destruction and Rigid Body Dynamics tools let you blow up buildings, create crumbling landscapes, or crash vehicles into a thousand pieces. Houdini gives you the ability to art direct every splinter, bounce, and collapse.

MATERIAL-BASED DESTRUCTION

Material-based Destruction Tools make it easier to set up and art direct destruction shots by providing tools for pre-fracturing materials such as concrete, glass and wood while automatically building constraint networks that tie the whole system together.

FRACTURING & GUIDED SIMS

From guided simulations to SOP-level setups, VFX artists can create blockbuster FX faster than ever before. Houdini includes a realistic chipping algorithm, support for easy fracturing with custom meshes and new soft-constraint plasticity attributes. In Houdini 21, RBD now supports damage maps for art-directable breaking.

HOUDINI IN PRODUCTION

Godzilla Minus One

Dive into the making of Godzilla Minus One with VFX Artist Shinji Miyake from Shirogumi Inc. Miyake shares how the studio tackled the film’s intense visual effects, from destruction and water simulations to capturing the terrifying scale of Godzilla. With a focus on procedural workflows using Houdini, the episode explores Shirogumi's creative and technical challenges, the emotional tone of the film, and the collaborative spirit behind one of Japan’s most visually ambitious monster movies.

RBD Car Rig

The RBD Car Rig converts car geometry into a driveable dynamic car rig with constraints for the suspension and motors. It is adaptable to any input geometry, and has four built-in wheel layouts.

Destruction Tools

H21 | Vehicle destruction tools let VFX artists easily set up realistic car, plane, or other vehicles to break-apart by automatically generating proxy geometry, constraints, and fracture setups, significantly streamlining the destruction workflow.

Car Rig

New RBD Car Follow Path SOP lets you animate a RBD Car Rig along a path while adjusting the constraint geometry’s attributes to match its intended steering and speed.

Suspension

The wheel and suspension properties can be set globally, per axle, or on individual wheels. You also have the ability to tune wheel camber, tire friction and bounciness, suspension travel, stiffness, and damping.

Destruction FX Nodes

Here some of the nodes to look out for when working with Destruction in Houdini. These nodes let you initiate, add properties to and control the look of your simulations.

RBD Material Fracture

RBD Constraint Properties

RBD Constraints From Curves