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Learn how to work with Solaris, Houdini’s environment for layout, lookdev and lighting and is built on USD, the open source Universal Scene Description format created by PIXAR. This series is intended for any 3D artist who has an interest in learning scene assembly and rendering workflows for USD. No prior Houdini knowledge is needed for following along.

CREATED BY

Moeen
MOEEN SAYED

Visual Effects artist for over 4 years and Houdini tutorial content creator. Co-founder of Nine Between, a South African Visual Effects Studio. Currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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COMMENTS

  • LukeP 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Your tutorials and the way you explain are absolutely amazing. Sided should hire you to redo the documentation! Please consider doing videos explaining each and every node of Houdini! :)

    • OneBigTree 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      ...and every possible combination of all of them... ;)

  • Octop 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Getting errors in XPU although it does render. Multiplying doesn't work however. Is this supported by CPU only for now?

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Hey, the error is likely caused by the displacement which is disconnected. You can delete the displacement output from the MTLX subnet to get rid of that error. As far as I know, the multiply should work, what are you multiplying?

    • AnimGraphLab 8 months ago  | 

      If you were talking about rendering MaterialX volume then yes, only CPU works for now.

  • Octop 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    Sorry can't find an edit button. I'm talking about the volume shader.

  • Anastasiiadots 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Made me so happy to see the new course of yours!!! BTW I could guess it's yours just by reading the name

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Thank you for the great comment! Lol, I'm becoming predictable.

  • OneBigTree 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Thank you so much for this. BM Fusion has just added USD support, which means I have now a reason to use usd files and solaris. This tutorial comes at the perfect time.

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Perfect! I'm glad you found it useful.

  • madrenderman 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    This course is great

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Thanks for watching!

  • SerQ 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    I just started watching and I'm already surprised at how well you manage to explain, I am extremely grateful to you.

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Thank you so much, I appreciate the great comment!

  • HarrryHoudini 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    This is so much clearer and easy to understand than the other USD tutorials here.

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      A comment from Harry Houdini himself? I must be doing something right. Thanks!

  • revilo3d 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Nicely done! Quick question - how did you to those text boxes? Is that a modified sticky note?

    • Moeen 11 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

      Thanks! If you drop a regular sticky note, you can hide the background in its options by right-clicking on it. I usually change the color of the note first so that the text becomes white instead of grey (press C to bring up color options when hovering in the object network)

  • Seyonce 11 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Your tutorial is awesome. Thanks for sharing. USD and Material X is now easy peezy lemon squeezy for me. Thanks a lot.

  • SerjKirchano 10 months, 1 week ago  | 

    Good work!

  • kuroashiae 10 months, 1 week ago  | 

    i cant find the file!!!!!

  • Alexandre11011 9 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    Thank you for this great overview. But having some difficulties using the component builder to create tree assets variants where the leaves and trunk are in subgroups and each variants using the same materials for leaves and trunk. Any inisght would be greatly appreciated.

  • HarrryHoudini 8 months, 1 week ago  | 

    I opened the file in video 4 in Houdini 20 but the scene is empty, this was working in 19.5. Did something change in Houdini 20?

    • HarrryHoudini 8 months, 1 week ago  | 

      Scratch that, problem solved!

  • rtmzzi 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    thank you so much, incredible explanation for new usd users like me :)

  • Fsl 1 month ago  | 

    Thanks for your tuotorials

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