Houdini Beginner Tutorial - Satisfying Vellum Growth | Houdini C4D Octane + Project Files
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In this beginner Houdini tutorial we will recreate beautiful 3D piece from onandon studio. Sidefx houdini allows for procedural approach that makes creating abstract and satisfying animations really easy. This beginnner houdini tutorial covers SOPs, Solvers and Vellum Cloth nodes. After exporting alembic sim we will bring it into the cinema4d and comp into the scene. We then use Octane Render to render the animation.
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Attribute transfer part: • Houdini - Transferring...
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10/10 sir hehe
@@AbdullahCross25 too kind haha ❤️😂
Thank you Mr. Nick nice of you to do this for the community
Man love the aesthetics of your videos and site .
This is pure gold, thanks!
Always welcome :)
This tutorial really improved my Houdini vocabulary, I finally understand attribute transfer, previously I was using distance for nearest point to get that kind of stuff, its so much simpler!
Glad to hear that!
You are very kind for sharing this! Thank you so much!!!
Welcome!
That 3 minute black image at the end was a good time to realize i'll never gonna be as good as this man
hey mate. im just sharing what i've learned myself from others. Maybe with a bit of twist or personal experiments. So being good at something, to me, is essentially just learning and practicing. I switched my career 5 times, I was fronted dev, android dev, ios dev, game art designer and finally im here doing abstract satisfying stuff. Now I know 2 things - don't let yourself burn out and your success is equal only to the amount of time you dedicate to learn something. So never say never, and don't be afraid to work. And sorry for that black screen, im still learning Resolve haha :D
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
cool
Thanks :)
Welcome my friend!
yoo this solver thing is soo nice i have thought about having a paint animation thing for a long time :D thanks alot for the tut
Glad I could help, but as said in the vid - all credits to terranimator :)
I really like that you make so many videos using houdini to c4d + octane. Please don't stop! :D
Thank you! I will :D
@@nickmedukha Sorry to bother you again, would you able to do a slow mo (time remapping) within houdini then to c4d? :) would be amazing bro
@@TheSiimur recording right now 😉
@@nickmedukha omg! :DD
Great tutorial. Using the solver to create the attribute transfer is a neat solution but it seems way over engineered to me. I am new to Houdini but in after effects you could achieve a similar effect by simply posterising the time. Is there no similar node / parameter to achieve this in Houdini?
Hey Nick, this is helpful. Thanks! I have a question though. In your vellumconstraintporperties node, why do you have to use vex to make the restscale become m_restscale and stiffness become the m_stiffness? Couldn't you just use the attribute transfer to create attributes called restscale and stiffness directly and then skip the vex part? Would the vellum constraint properties node automatically detect and use those attributes, or are you required to use Vex to retarget your custom attributes?
Hey Ian! Yup, so the thing is context. Vellumconstraintproperties is inside the vellum so I doubt it looks at the sop level. But its Houdini, you never know until you test haha. Your idea might actually work! I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few other options to pass the data somehow haha, thats why I love Houdini :D
thanks alot for the walkthrough. What vellum pack/unpack does and why you use it before file cache? thanks again!
Welcome! Oh Pack and Unpack is just a good habit to me. Its is not that necessary when we just apply Post-Process (Although you can inspect forces from constraints), but the main thing is, you are caching constraints too! Without pack, you would be caching just the geo.
So you can then attach more and more constraints if needed after the first caching. Its not that common thing, but its just feels prettier to me haha
In other case, plug file cache directly to the first output of solver and don't worry haha :D
Have you tried blender 3.0 ?
Hey Nick! Thanks for tutorial, you could also just put the attributes transfer inside the solver and merge the previous frame with the attributes transfer, it easier for beginners in my opinion
can you explain to me how to do that? my attribwrangler is not working inside the solver...
@@asdf_tmk yes, put the attributes transfer inside the solver, plug the purple previous frame node in the left input and put the input one in the right input, then merge the attributes transfer node with the previous frame purple node
@@syns369 can you DM me a picture of the node tree?
@@syns369 please
yup, i thought of getting that into the solver, but from the beginners view I thought its better to keep the transfer at the top level, cause when I was learning houdini, for me, diving in to the solvers always felt like a distraction from the main node tree haha
in solver u can just use much simpler VEX :
@Cd = @Cd + pointattrib(1,"Cd",@ptnum,0);
it does the same thing
Oh thats cool, thanks a lot man!
excat same code i copied but it shows error in m_restscale. How to solve the issue?
Hey thanks so much for the tutorial. I'm probably missing something very basic but I keep getting, "old geometry fetched since simulation is disabled in my Dop Import in the solver1. The simulation shouldn't be disabled though... Any idea what I might be doing? The brain on the bottom is not a red circle but it is gray.
I basically solved this by just deleting everything at that step and re-making and re-typing everything out again. And for whatever reason, that time it works :D
Thanks again for the tutorial!
Well its Houdini :D Glad its working fine now :)
@@nickmedukha haha indeed :D I'm generally a Blender artist at this point so Houdini and I have an on again, off again relationship haha. But thanks again for your tutorial.
its very good tutorial if you already knows houdini. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on creating a group and selecting intersection points in it...
Hey and I just found an answer, check out the process in this tutorial th-cam.com/video/MQnbXkPEcsM/w-d-xo.html
Hey... Did you find any solution? I'm new to Houdini and I don't understand this step.
Nick, im getting an error:
Error
Invalid source /obj/tube1/solver1/d/s/attribwrangle1/attribvop1
Error: Syntax error, unexpected string constant, expecting ')'. (1,30).
Warning
Syntax error, unexpected string constant, expecting ')'. (1,30)
thanks for the tutorial. might you be able to help?
It basically says you have forgotten the closing bracket ")" somewhere :)
@@nickmedukha and if
($F > ch("../../../startframe"), 1, 0)
@@nickmedukha it appears to be the same as what you entered...
nevermind figured it out! thanks
For beginners? Seriously?? I don't think vex code is for beginners...
Cool lesson, thank you, I will try to understand how it works
VEX code is part of houdini just like other nodes, i don't see any reason of not learning it, starting with basics covered in this tutorial. And while you get more and more experienced, you will see that this example here is not even a serious "coding" ;) Anyhow, thanks for watching :)