Luca Pataracchia

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Senior Production Consultant
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Technical Director

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Since Jun 2018

My Tutorials

obj-image Intermediate
Opencl SOP for VEX users
obj-image Intermediate
PDG for FX Artists
obj-image Intermediate
OpenCL COP for VEX Users
obj-image Intermediate
Retarget the CMU Motion Capture Database
obj-image Intermediate
Surfacing Lidar
obj-image Node Reference
SideFX Labs | Post Animation Deform

Recent Forum Posts

Instancer node missing in LOPs July 24, 2026, 10:53 p.m.

have a look at the attached file. It goes over the basic functionality of the point intstancer, scatter instances and copy to points

How do i make my houidini faster. June 19, 2026, 11:38 p.m.

making use of compile blocks: https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houdini-16-masterclass-compiled-sops/ [www.sidefx.com] will make things faster and save you ram. It's particularly helpful when using foreach blocks.

How to split USD file for instance March 17, 2026, 2:52 p.m.

the instance lop allows you to use a path attributes to choose the path in the scene graph tree of you want to instance.

From the docs:
"Path Attribute

Use the value of a string attribute to select the prototype by path."