Houdini FX: Getting started with FLIP

Name: Houdini FX: Getting started with FLIP
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Houdini liquid basic tutorial

Created byAlex Tumyang

Last updated 9/2024

English

What you'll learn

you will learn small scale liquid simulation in houdini
you will learn how to work with material and lights in karma
you will learn how to render passes, mattes, z depth, cryptomattes from karma
you will be able to create ads/commercial related to fluid and liquid

Course content

8 sections • 102 lectures • 9h 10m total length

Course Trailer6:46
your first set up of Liquid Simulation4:14
Sourcing with SOP objects7:42
Adding collision oject for water7:23
Learn to add a cliff collision for water in Houdini FX using FLIP by importing geometry, creating a water source, and using vdevs as the collision source.
dynamically adjusting domain grid and adding drag to sim6:09
Adding point velocity4:23
compress and cache to disk5:56
Learn to set up a flip fluid simulation in Houdini, configure velocity, drag, and resolution, compress with matching particle separation, and bake to disk for 1–250 frames.
meshing7:49
fill glass with water7:16
collision with glass5:27
continously flow water to fill glass with water5:31
caching and meshing water sim9:51

1. intro chocolate drip project1:10
2. setting project and importing model3:31
3. creating sim2:39
4. replace intial fluid and add visocity4:19
5. setting up vdb collider4:55
6. emitter setup7:16
7. linking emmiter inside dopnet4:19
8. adding viscosity and velocity from SOP4:56
9. multiple emitter4:43
10. meshing and seperating layers6:49
11. assemble7:51
12. working in LOP and assigning material9:33
13. lights and camera setup2:59
14. material4:36
15. rendering to img sequences2:14

1 overview of ice lemon soda water1:24
2. setting project and importing model4:04
3. scattering points for ice6:42
4. scatting the ice cubes7:09
5. distributing lemons6:53
6. water source3:50
7. simulating the liquid and colliding6:25
8. final setting before simulation cache7:19
9. caching to disk and converting8:08
10. chanigng time scale2:35
11. setting up in solaris4:45
12. assigning materials6:44
13. render passes and z depth9:14
14. render to sequences with mattes6:34

1. Introduction to Crown Splash Project0:42
2. setting project and importing model2:06
3. copy to points5:17
4 rbd simulation6:34
5. camera2:03
Add and configure a camera for flip apple simulation, lock the view, set positions to zeros and -90, and name outputs as rbd apple simulations with a null named out.
6. setting up flip sim11:08
Learn to set up a Houdini FX flip simulation by creating the initial fluid and ocean source, using narrowband particles for fast calculations, and aligning volumes and grids.
7. adding collision5:36
Explore collision setup in Houdini FLIP by aligning collision sources with volume data from the apple, tuning voxel sizes, and adjusting velocities to create a water splash.
8. refining the initial fluid4:28
Refine the initial fluid in Houdini FX FLIP by isolating a single apple, adjusting oversampling and scatter density, and tuning the ocean source for convincing collision results.
9. viscosity and surface tension4:20
10. collider velocity7:02
11. final tweak1:54
12. sim caching3:16
13. convert to mesh4:11
14. retime cache4:09
15. importing to stage and applying material4:12
16. lights6:09
17. modifying material2:25
18. render to image sequences2:44

1. Overview of this project0:57
Learn to build a FLIP-based effect in Houdini from scratch with beginner-friendly, step-by-step guidance, explaining the values and reasons behind each move to achieve the final result.
2. setting project and importing model3:20
3. setup for dopnet3:41
4. collision object and setting domain5:39
5. setting up emitter7:54
6 liquid emit activation5:05
Explore activating a FLIP emitter in Houdini FX by connecting a volume source to the dotnet, timing emission with frame-based scripts, adjusting particle separation, and preparing initial water.
7. simulation with initial liquid8:35
8. cache5:03
9. material and lights with karma7:35
Master karma materials and lighting in Houdini’s Solaris, import geometry, create water and soda can materials, and configure area and dome lights for rendering.
10. rendering to image sequences2:26

Project Ovieview1:26
2 setting the project2:58
3. importing geometry3:29
4. copy to points7:07
Duplicate geometry with copy to points on a transformed grid in Houdini FX FLIP, explore scatter and merge, and optimize with pack instance and symbol to reduce points for simulations.
5. distributing different pieces and randomizing10:00
6. collision pieces and adding gravity7:06
7. creating velocity11:31
8. adding random spin speed3:47
9. timeshift7:44
Apply a time shift and time remap to FLIP simulations by keyframing frame numbers to create slow and fast segments, then adjust interpolation to linear for smoother playback.
10. tweaking3:44
Increase the points by 65 and reset gas to distribute apples to the left and right. Use shift-click to select keyframes, middle click to place them, then duplicate the transform.
11. applying material4:49
12. cache problem in increment save1:31
13 rendering to image sequences9:40

Requirements

basic UI knoweldge of houdini

Description

Houdini tutorial on Flip simulation
houdini liquid simulation course
houdini fluid tutorial

This guide is a beginner-friendly tutorial for learning Houdini, focusing on small-scale liquid FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particle) simulations. We'll start from the very basics, making it easy for anyone new to liquid simulation to follow along. You'll learn step-by-step how to create and work with liquid simulations, even if you've never done it before.

Additionally, this course will teach you about Karma, Houdini's rendering engine. By the end of the tutorial, you'll know how to use Karma to make your fluid simulations look amazing. This guide will help you build a strong foundation in both liquid simulation and rendering in Houdini with karma.

This is the basic beginner guide of houdini tutorial in small scale of flip simulation. we will start from very baby steps of liquid simulation. You will also learn karma in this course as well.

Are you a Houdini beginner? Your knowledge in simulating fluid in Houdini is so little or you don't even have any idea.
Don't you wanna create a simulation like the one in the promo video and create commercial and ads?

In this course, we will create this simulation and this render!
Take a journey through the world of FLIP simulations from zero to hero, we will start with the very basics explaining every parameter

Who this course is for:

anyone who wants to create small scale liquid simulation and do render in karma in houdini
anyonw who wants to learn create ads and commercial related to liquid

Houdini FX: Getting started with FLIP

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Course content

Basic introduction guide to liquid simulation12 lectures • 1hr 18min

splash from right and left side to beer can10 lectures • 1hr 8min

Ice Cream Chocolate Drip15 lectures • 1hr 12min

Water Splash On Orange10 lectures • 47min

Ice lemon Soda Water Splash14 lectures • 1hr 22min

Crown Splash18 lectures • 1hr 18min

Soda Can wate explode splash10 lectures • 50min

Sliced Apple RBDs ( BONUS PROJECT )13 lectures • 1hr 15min

Requirements

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