Hi, folks. Brand-new user to Houdini and to modeling in general. I'm hoping someone can point me toward a tutorial to help me learn enough about Houdini to build my project.

My project: I'm trying to strip the surface off a 3D sphere, which I've built in Metashape, and stretch it out into a 2D rectangle. Kinda like taking NASA's photos of the earth and stretching them into a flat map. I don't need any animations or anything--just this simple procedure. But since I don't know a darned thing about Houdini, I thought there might be a good tutorial about doing this.

Thank you!

Play with this plus you have here on Forum (search) Vex based solution.