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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

rmagee
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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COMMENTS

  • adizepl 1 month, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Amazing tutorial for everyone wanting to start with Houdini!

  • chris7c0 1 month, 1 week ago  | 

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

  • leviathan1339 2 weeks, 6 days ago  | 

    nice

  • Shibadatt_Mohapatra 2 weeks, 3 days ago  | 

    Amazing Teacher whos has super power which is teaching

    • rmagee 2 weeks, 3 days ago  | 

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

  • Ishaksaidumohammad 2 weeks, 3 days ago  | 

    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 1 week, 4 days ago  | 

    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 1 week, 3 days ago  | 

      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 3 days, 20 hours ago  | 

    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 3 days, 16 hours ago  | 

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

      • zko99309 3 days, 9 hours ago  | 

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

      • zko99309 3 days, 9 hours ago  | 

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

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