Welcome to another Toronto Houdini User Group presentation, the first one of this year! Past SideFX intern Ian Harvey talks with Fianna Wong about his internship experience, working on pre-release features and then, goes over the firecracker demo he worked on for the Houdini 18.5 release.

Timestamps -- 
00:00 Ian and Fianna talk about internship

11:14 Firecrackers & New Pyro Burst Source SOP overview

Firecrackers_Tutorial.zip (1.9MB)

COMMENTS

  • AhmedHindy 3 years, 1 month ago  | 

    hi, I cached everything in the HIP file till the "pyro burst source" SOP in "Pyro Setup". Houdini always crashes at that node and freezes my entire PC in the process. I am using Houdini 18.5.462 with only Arnold and Labs installed on it.

    Specs:
    intel i5-4690k
    16 GB Ram at 2448 Mhz
    GTX 970

    • Ian_Harvey 3 years, 1 month ago  | 

      Hi there, first I would check if @startframe has cached on the points in the geometry spreadsheet.

      Trailing Separation (Burst Shape > Trailing) may be too low for your specs. I would suggest trying the default value in this parameter (0.1) or higher. As a note, pyro burst source will take some time to process initially before you will be able to scrub interactively.

      I created this project on a machine with these specs:

      Ryzen Threadripper 3960x
      128 GB RAM @ 3200 Mhz
      2080 Ti

  • BlackPoint 3 years ago  | 

    Nice done! Like the details and result.

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