Houdini | Snow and Rain FX | Quick Tip

In this video, we explore a method for easily generating snow and rain with sidefx ‪@houdini3d‬
This exercise is great for improving your particle simulation abilities, and it's a great trick that every Houdini TD should know how to do.
The video quality did get messed up in the process of recording (apologies for that!) however, since then, this technical issue has been fixed.
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Thanks for watching

[@NelsonLim]

You put a lot of work into this and could have been a masterclass, Tyler! Awesome video as always and I actually realise I don't use the point velocity node enough. Thanks again.

[@cgforge]

Thank you Nelson! That point velocity node is a great little node. You can also use it for establishing randomized normals and just generating any sort of vector data in general. Cheers

[@tondann]

TH-cam's compression is not the most grateful for snow and rain, but nevertheless a very helpful video! thanks

[@twist6020]

Love these longer vids

[@cgforge]

Thanks Twist! I have part II coming out in December on how to light/shade everything, so be sure to keep an eye out for that as well. Cheers

[@mattbarkerart]

great tutorial, thanks!

[@djilaliachour1578]

Big thanks for this amazing sharing CGF

[@cgforge]

You're welcome! Thanks for checking it out Djilali

[@TheSiimur]

Earned a new sub :) Keep those tuts / tips coming !

[@cgforge]

Thank you SIM!

[@vfxskull6208]

I never ever managed to make the camera volume from VDB. Thank you!

[@DimaShishkov]

Excellent tutorial. Well paced. Picked up a couple of interesting approaches. Thanks for that.

[@cgforge]

Thank you Dima!

[@mitchelltharp8023]

awesome

[@RobertKennymore]

You can use a Group node with "Keep by Normals" instead of painting the top surface by hand.

[@cgforge]

Totally! That works as well. Just make sure that you feature some kind of breakup in the shape though. Having a organic pattern can make a difference

[@UmairAliMughal2009]

brilliant 😊

[@cgaltruist2938]

Thanks, love it ^^

[@vincentxu1287]

Thank you very much, really help!!

[@DDIGITALLAB]

Thank you!

[@3dforever717]

Very nice and interesting! 👍👍 But how about the render with Redshift? 😅 Because the look of your snow flakes are awesome! 👌

[@cgforge]

Thanks 3D Forever!
I plan on releasing a quick tip tomorrow morning on how I did the lookdev, so stay tuned 😎

[@3dforever717]

@@cgforge Cool! Good news! 👍

[@Robin-zz7io]

@@cgforge Any update to that? Would love to see that as well.

[@pavelbalagazov3647]

​@@cgforgeshow a video how to render snow plz?

[@dannys_85]

great video thanks 1 question wy
volume rasteriza attribute
not sample v with pcopen and pcfilter to update velocity in popwrangle?
i think is the same but different technique right?

[@cgforge]

I imagine you could do something along those lines as well. In this situation, I found it more straight-forward in my mind to just add in the velocity I want on the points, rasterize, and end up with the ingredients for volume advection. But - you might be able to get something faster and more efficient by using a pop wrangle, so give it a shot and see if it works! Cheers