Getting started with houdini (entry level course)

Explore the basic concept of attributes in Houdini by creating a geometry node, applying a color node to generate the CD attribute, and viewing attribute storage on points and primitives.

Learn to apply car and tire materials in Houdini by using the material palette, creating groups for targeted surfaces, and building named groups with operator strings to control material application.

Master basic procedural modeling in Houdini by building a cartoon ice cream and cupcake from a cone and tube, then duplicate, merge, color, and refine with noise.

Master instancing in houdini by aligning copied geometry to surface normals and up vectors, orienting the top object toward the z-axis, and applying random rotations for varied orientations.

Learn how to instance multiple geometries onto points in Houdini using copy to points, pack and instance, and a for each loop with detail iterations to randomize scale and orientation.

Learn to use the chramp ramp function to output a ramp from 0 to 1 and apply it in a Houdini attribute wrangle to drive color via a gradient.

Learn how to use printf in the Houdini console to print messages, control newlines with format specifiers, and visualize how loops replace repetitive printing for repeated outputs.

Learn how arrays work in Vex by creating and manipulating string, numeric, and attribute arrays, using indices and components, appending items, and counting elements with len.

Learn to build a scattered box scene on a grid in Houdini from scratch, using VEX, attribute wrangles, and painting to control p scale, height, color, and distribution.

Replace voronoi fracture with the boolean workflow to create irregular fractures. Set up a grid, copy to points, and apply orient randomization and surface copy for distributed textures.

import a public water tank, scale it, and generate a three-layer fracture destruction with VDB from polygon, scattering points inside the volume to drive explosions and debris in Houdini.

Learn guided rbd simulation in houdini by deforming a box, applying voronoi fracture, configuring the bullet solver, and controlling sections for selective demolition.

Harness Houdini's sim system to cast rigid bodies, use a drop import operator with an object mask, generate points for the water tank, and export lightweight geometry.

Learn to scatter points on geometry, add turbulent noise and color attributes, and assign materials and lighting to particles, with motion and velocity blur for realistic renders.

Create a Houdini pyro source, generate density and temperature, map white to black colors to density via an attribute wrangle, then initialize velocity and prepare for the pyro solver.

Learn to optimize Houdini pyro simulations by limiting the domain to 25m and adjusting the density ramp to start dark and brighten over time.

Learn to shape dust and smoke simulations in Houdini by tweaking pyro settings, gravity, temperature, density, disturbance, turbulence, and volume sources, then render and review frame ranges.

Learn to spread fire with Houdini's pyro presets, connect pyro source to pyro solver, and adjust rate, max neighbor, cooling, and diffusion to simulate fast or slow burning.