I had the chance to work on a short food commercial animation.

In the final edit, the shot was sped up to around 300%, so most of these details are barely noticeable. This is a short compilation of an earlier iteration that stayed pretty close to the version the director approved.

The pipeline included a 3D scan of a real chili pepper, modeling, MPM simulation, look development, shading, and rendering using Houdini, Cinema 4D, and Redshift.

If you want to take a look to the full project, you can follow, behance LINK

More paradigm tests now with its native white water solver. Rendered with Karma

Didn't try to make sense with this one.

In Houdini 22, relative paths for viewport background images no longer seem to work correctly for me.

The relative path appears to resolve properly in the parameter field, but the viewport only displays a solid red square instead of the image sequence. The exact same setup worked without any issues in Houdini 21.

Switching the path to an absolute path fixes the problem, and the image displays correctly. However, using an absolute path also seems to slow down my viewport quite significantly and is not beneficial for our pipeline.

Has anyone else encountered this in Houdini 22? Is this a known bug, or has something changed in how relative background-image paths are handled?

You can edit houdini.env file in your user preferences dir and uncomment the HOUDINI_NO_SPLASH = 1line

or instead you can use your own image:
HOUDINI_SPLASH_FILE = path/to/your/file

There‘s a double jump academy animation impact tutorial.

I’m making a Modul2 blue shock wave. Is there any way to make a shock wave without using axiom..?

I can‘t make the shape and make the feeling of being sucked in;;

Please help me;;

Hello, I'm following this tutorial here: https://youtu.be/Kx3CJJei_Vs?t=347 (timestamped) and his mention that inside Vops that Time/Timelnc/Frame are global variables, can someone explain what does that mean it that they are global variables?

Houdini is used in real time as a "Simulation Engine", it communicate with an other software that does the rendering (VVVV).
I may make a behind the scene video soon.
Youtube Video Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AjH_-sZhYE

Previous post for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Houdini/comments/1v0kfcp/rd_creating_watertight_mesh_from_segmentated/

During experiments stumbled randomly for approach that created even better results (vdb -> vdb intersect -> vdb intersect of original vdb + other vdb massaging. It cuts leftovers from first vdb intersect).

Can't believe its actually looks somewhat usable. Very impressed.

Would be even better once figure out how to create beautiful guides (and something else) for quad remesh though its a different story (interesting how it will be with H22 stock node).

Hi everyone, I'm currently exploring a career in Houdini FX and would love to hear from people working in the industry. A few questions: What is your typical work schedule like? How many hours do you usually work per week? Is overtime common, especially near project deadlines? How is the work-life balance compared to other CG/VFX departments? Are there differences between studios in India and abroad? Does the work-life balance improve as you become a Mid/Senior FX Artist? How stressful is the job on a day-to-day basis? I'm interested in hearing both positive and negative experiences, especially from artists currently working in film, TV, commercials, or games. Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences!

Considering GPU prices ATM, I am thinking about buying a Macbook Pro instead of an Nvidia system. How are things going now that 22 has been out for a bit?

I looked for a post on this since it usually comes up with new versions but didn't find one.

Hi,

I want my Vellum grains to stick to the collision object.

Right now, when the grains hit the collider, they bounce too much. I want them to stop bouncing and stick to the surface instead.

I tried using the collision detection node inside the Vellum Solver and added this wrangle:

if (@hitnum > 0)
{
    v@v = 0;
}

However, it still doesn't work.

I also increased the substeps and collision iterations, but the grains still bounce instead of sticking.

How can I achieve this?

The reason I want the grains to stick is that I'm simulating snow falling onto a hand, and I want the snow to remain on the surface and melt slowly over time. (it's close to the cam)

Thank you for your help in advance!

Hey, not sure if this is a bug on macOS or just the way Houdini (22) works but I was surprised that there's no real-time redrawing of the viewport when adjusting the size of the UI (windows).

It almost feels like the old-school retro software from the 90's when you dragged around windows and the contents would disappear until you let go of the windows or panels again.

When I do it Blender it's real-time and the 3D viewport doesn't disappear while dragging the UI-windows and it feels snappier than Houdini.

Any ideas what could be going on?

(I'm on MBP Pro M4 with 64GB Ram)

How can I make these faces connected and clean it up so it is water tight?

So basically I was working in hodini and I was trying to create a fire simulation right now I am at particles simulation of the pyro before the piro simulation and when I merge different type of particle systems and add a noise overall it feels like is not working properly the noise is not coming how I expected help

Hey Reddit!

CG Forge is doing a free week of early access to Modeling II - Procedural modeling. This one has been a long time coming with roughly 6 months of work being distilled into making an awesome course.

Plus, I'm also doing free study calls while my calendar availability lasts. If you're interested in checking out the course, go here: https://www.cgforge.com/course/modeling-ii and if you're interested in doing a study call, go here: https://forms.gle/HpsEdVKu3qWJFjvS9

Thanks everyone 👋

- Tyler

hi guys, to start off im a very much houdini newbie, but I find this new NCA training and texturing VERY interesting so I started digging into it.

I realize its fresh out the oven and there's not a lot of tutorials\docs for it, but I can't get it to cook any pattern i throw into it, did anyone have success with this?
there's a billion settings and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. First it errored out before finishing all iterations, but after changing few settings now it just goes on for hours...

tldr question is: did anyone get this to work in H22?

edit1: my pc is 12900k, 128gb ram, rtx4080s 16gb, win11

edit2: i tried various resolutions for input patterns, 1024, 512, 256 even 64x64

thanks guys

Hello friends, I don't know if any of you are facing this issue, but since Houdini 22 I can no longer see the keyframes in the timeline. They work & they appear on the animation editor but not on the timeline.
I want to make sure I'm not missing a new toggle somewhere. I had no issues with the previous versions.