Quick Wetmap Tutorial with Houdini (With the Solver SOP)

This is a quick* tutorial on how to make a wetmap in Houdini. I kept forgetting how to do this myself and found I was trudging through hour long tutorials to find the same technique, and or redownloading the same set-up form Tokeru to remind myself how to do a fade with a Solver Sop. Either way, they're both in here, and it takes less than 4 minutes.
*Quick meaning I don't explain everything. It's more so a reference video to come back to. But if you have any questions or get stuck then don't hesitate to ask.

[@KevRyanCG]

It's April 2024, and I'm saving my ass by rewatching my own tutorial because I'm in a crunch and can't be bothered to figure it out again.
Pro-tip, make tutorials for everything and leave them online!

[@valentinanunez3708]

Clear, useful, and straight to the point. I guess you're just begging for me to subscribe now hahaha can't wait to sit down and watch a couple more videos.

[@VuPhamRainstorm]

Straight to the point, short and compact. Great tutorial for Houdini. Love it.

[@KevRyanCG]

Thank you very much! Hopefully nice and short so that it can be easily referred back to.

[@Helios.vfx.]

Dang it was straight to the point. The moment I'd be able to make videos... I'll make them that way. Thanks mate, for this one

[@r0mbag-art]

massively helpful (also laughed that your most recent comment is you rewatching it hahah)

[@ClapClap4Sim]

Thanks , easily helped me figured out why it wasnt working when I tried on my own !

[@arireisner]

Perfect! This is exactly what I'm looking for, much appreciated!

[@ashhhton]

Amazing and to the point!

[@rajeshkumarm2315]

Great tutorial. Thanks

[@mazin3d]

Thank you so mush . great simple tutorial

[@RMAFIRE]

Good vibes only🙌👏

[@xdmomento7303]

Amazing tutorial, would you have any advice on how to do "wet fur"?

[@021shaw]

Thank you very much sir!!!

[@RajuMon2016]

Great one

[@brobpony4792]

This tutorial was exactly what I was looking for but unfortunately, I am not getting any fading at all. I am running Houdini 19.5 and rather than using a flip sim, I am using points from volume as my source points because I am looking for something like blender's dynamic paint function, not a wet map.
Ended up finding a solution by adding an Attribute Fade node after the point wrangle.

[@OnkAnCa64]

Thanks

[@9AFilms]

any way to get it out as image sequence ?

[@ModuMaru]

what if the wet mesh is simulated? prev node in solver shows static mesh idk why

[@ModuMaru]

solved. i used attribute copy node at solver

[@randomgamer3466]

@@ModuMaru did you just replaced the "attribute transfer" node with "attribute copy" inside the "solver" node ?

[@shivdholakia]

How to export this wetmap to another 3rd party DCC like Maya?

[@AndreiChifan]

you can include this attribute when you write an alembic and access it via vertex color

[@user-hl5zx1qh7s]

what grapic card you use for houdini?

[@Helios.vfx.]

any graphic card can be used. But for rendering, the RTX ones are ideally

[@KevRyanCG]

I was using a 2080Ti at this point

[@user-hl5zx1qh7s]

fur wet map tutorial pls

[@TheLordsynfel]

And how do I render it on karma?