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Anonymous09/23/24, 18:40No.996209Houdini General
Houdini is fun and easy!
Pick up a free apprentice version today:
https://www.sidefx.com/download/
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Anon09/23/24, 18:48No.996210
Now that we've got the formalities out of the way, I've been having a nightmare of a time matching Karma renders in the viewport / mplay. The ACES transform from ACEScg just never looked right, colours ended up too saturated.But I've cracked it for davinci resolve. Use EXR output:Houdini Settings:
Edit > OCIO Settings > ACEScg
(Setting this to acescct fucks up the viewport)Karma Render Settings
Image Output > AOVs > Component Level Output > Output Colorspace > ACEScctResolve Project Settings:
Pic-related + in the colour page, project nodes add an aces transform with the following settings:
- Input Transform: ACEScct - CSC
- Output Transform: sRGB
This will let you mess withe gamut compression and do post-srgb changesThis will exactly match what you see in houdini.
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Anon09/24/24, 15:17No.996305
Only with the power of Houdini will Cris finally be defeated.
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Anon09/26/24, 13:09No.996509
https://www.enoni.de/wp/pbr-5-layer/
free cops pbr layering hda (fx compatible)
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Anon09/29/24, 17:11No.996824
Does anyone have some good resources on how to shade and render pyro fire and smoke in solaris karma? I tried to make this shot but dont know how to make the fire at the end look like smoke instead of fire.
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Anon10/02/24, 20:19No.997183
Is a Houdini General really warranted? How many people on this board have ever even opened it?
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Anon10/03/24, 21:45No.997241
Karma still isn't gold enough
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Anon10/07/24, 12:31No.997592
>2024
>people still using houdini for rendering when Katana exists
>people primarily posting about Karma in this thread and not about simulationswhy is this?
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Anon10/07/24, 19:16No.997631
>2024
>People talking about Houdini in a Houdini thread
>why is this?
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Anon10/09/24, 13:47No.997833
Trying to make a hurricane with pyro. How can I make it looke less like smoke and more like hurricane mist?
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Anon10/09/24, 19:13No.997864
Does anyone know how the hell I can get points scattered as a volume on a deforming mesh to not jump around like crazy and change their point numbers? Time shifts and rest nodes aren't doing shit. I just want to use this running character as a pyro source and have the points stick in one spot- so I can drive a certain degree of the smokes velocity using their normal direction
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Anon10/14/24, 21:44No.998315
anyone happen to own the Steam version? asking because I will eventually buy houdini indie and I happen to have a ton of steam cash from when I played CS and sold my skins. I'd rather just use that to buy it but if there are bugs or differences then I'll just shell out the money for indie separately
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Anon10/16/24, 08:28No.998581
Sounds cool!
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Anon10/16/24, 15:04No.998658
is there a catch with the free version of Houdini?
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Anon10/19/24, 12:18No.999064
what is everybody learning?
APEX?
MPM?
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Anon10/20/24, 13:45No.999152
What format do you use to import characters from blender into houdini? FBX or what??
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Anon10/21/24, 13:17No.999252
>get opencl errors constantly with vellum
>update nvidia drivers
>doesn't fix anything
>disable gpu for opencl
>go to render with karma xpu
>all ambient occlusion is now bright teal
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Anon10/23/24, 07:52No.999467
working on the soccer ball tutorial from sidefx website
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Anon10/23/24, 22:52No.999510
Does anyone else feel like they're perpetually at 70% with everything they try with this software? At this point I get the basic jist of how to do most of the things I think of, but then I either hit some wall that brings all of the experimentation that came before it to a complete halt, or I just get stuck with a shit version of the thing I was imagining, that's everything I was trying to make it be, except it looks like shit.
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Anon10/25/24, 19:20No.999730
I've a final project to do in 7-8 weeks and now we're off the rails from traditional assignments and I can't recite a single thing I've learned. It's over!
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Anon10/27/24, 06:31No.1000070
I have a challenge for ya'lSuppose I have this shape. I want to duplicate this shape dozens of times and scale it inwards, and have each smaller copy nested perfectly inside the larger copy. But the vectors don't want to let me do this. I get this crap instead. What do I do
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Anon10/27/24, 09:35No.1000093
everybody making houdini courses but there are no jobsend stage capitalism
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Anon10/27/24, 22:18No.1000164
What is this? It always pops up when I launch Houdini
>>Prelaunch pb? 1
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Anon10/27/24, 22:31No.1000165
shit ui and sluggish performance. i took a month to really learn it and found out its just easier to work in a general 3d package with similar results. if you wanna do extreme high end sims, sure. but general use from renders to shorts, not worth the headache.
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Anon11/08/24, 16:43No.1001075
>mfw constantly frustrated by the guide partition node and only just realise that no one uses it for actual parts in hair and that i should just break the groom up into sections
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Anon11/18/24, 19:41No.1001962
I'm not a good coder bros, is there any hope for me?
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Anon11/28/24, 16:08No.1002558
>wait for months for a course to come out
>its out
>the course isn't in depth, glosses over important details
>most importantly, jump to the final video of the course and the results just aren't that goodshit man
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Anon11/30/24, 13:57No.1002672
My peepee is DIAMOND since I discovered this fucking dream of a software.
I honestly want to fucking master it. The modeling (especially procedural) part of it specifically and the VEX as well.
I'm a gamedev. What learning path/courses should I take? There's too many different expensive course about Houdini, I wouldn't mind paying for 2 or 3 of them (in case I don't find them somewhere else of couse)
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Anon12/02/24, 00:21No.1002754
I don't know how to introduce randomization to a switch
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Anon12/02/24, 19:13No.1002787
Apex verdict?
Current workflow aside, is it fully featured?
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Anon12/03/24, 22:18No.1002837
Apex is good actually and very easy to use
Component library needs a bit of building out, but APEX (and custom components) has access to everything in houdini so shops can customise it at will
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Anon12/04/24, 09:51No.1002870
Uhh bros our 'senior' fx guy never got anything approved after a year and then got poached by ILM. Is this the power of houdini?
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Anon12/05/24, 10:04No.1002910
Started looking into it because this tutorial implied it is a viable alternative to Russian3dScanner/faceform for transferring ripped game model heads onto daz/other generic template human body models.
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/sop/topotransfer.html
The apprentice version seems unable to do texture baking due to the render resolution limitations.
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Anon12/05/24, 14:17No.1002926
That feeling when you get over the houdini gatekeeping by reading the documentation, but you still keep maya and blender in the toolbelt because they just work better for a lot of things and your entire output is going into a game engine anyways because film and tv are both utterly and completely dead.
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Anon12/07/24, 17:42No.1003035
I had an idea where I have particles streaming toward the camera. How might I make them prettier when so zoomed into them? Would you just work on the material itself, or try to spawn even smaller ones, or something else entirely?
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Anon12/19/24, 19:12No.1003700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pphH8OwH8uAworth claiming these tb h
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Anon12/27/24, 19:17No.1004102
HELLLLOOOOOOOO HOUDINIHEADS!
about to start houidini-course.com after paying $50 for a monthly sub
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Anon01/18/25, 23:39No.1005727
still worth it learning Houdini or go all in with blender and AI?
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Anon01/20/25, 23:02No.1005859
Karma looks like that?
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Anon02/07/25, 22:37No.1007093
groaning
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Anon03/05/25, 16:35No.1008655
Dug into apex, the framework's insane.
Side just needs to ship H21 with more prebuilt scripts for it to be appealing to everyone but man, the possibilities with the low level shit runs deep as is.
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Anon03/06/25, 20:29No.1008740
should we make a Tech Art/VFX/Material/Proceduralism thread to incorporate discussion from Unity, Unreal, EmberGen, Nuke, Houdini, etc., because this one's so dead?
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Anon03/22/25, 21:34No.1009912
Never realised how much of a vram hog the Solaris viewport is
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Anon03/27/25, 03:58No.1010161
the hell is on line 9
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Anon03/27/25, 04:38No.1010164
It appears in any and all wrangles, and you see it on the edge of the 9, and when you type it scoots along until it hits that position.
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Anon03/27/25, 20:12No.1010204
sidefx dropped a quick 20.5 foundation course.https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/foundations-205-nodes-networks-assets/lets learn
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Anon03/29/25, 17:53No.1010328
think i found the worst bit of documentation in the houdini docs
bravo
incredible technical writing here
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Anon03/30/25, 23:26No.1010406
Why do these slices appear along edges with bump maps? Anyway around them?
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Anon04/04/25, 12:45No.1010585
why is my F1 for help files not working in Houdini?
opens the browser but nothing shows, just blank. The fuck?
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Anon04/07/25, 22:29No.1010737
What am I missing with updating textures in Houdini? It takes some finagling to get certain updates to appear, and sometimes it's recreating the import node entirely to get something to show.
I see there's an "update textures" button in Render up top, but that does nothing largely.
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Anon04/08/25, 09:02No.1010754
I'm supposed to reproduce these as an exercice. I'm having trouble with two thing on these
> 1st pic
How did he manage to keep the top of the extruded regions flat and valley like? I tried using a mountain noise on a primitive group (selected randomly which also doesn't give the same effect) but it doesn't work, it's extruded on the normals of each primitives which creates a mess of overlapping geometries?
> 2nd pic
Also after the polyextrude, how did he manage to divide the geometry to have cube like formations instead of only have the surface primitive being extruded.Don't spoil it too much for me, clues and directions are enough.Sorry if I don't use the correct words of if I'm too vague.
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Anon04/11/25, 19:44No.1010867
Is this really how you save textures in COPs? Feel like there's gotta be a faster way.
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Anon04/29/25, 16:32No.1011254
when's Houdini 21 coming out?
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Anon05/22/25, 14:35No.1012508
Tell me something. I learned the basics of Houdini, I know how to use VEX, I know about groups and attributes and most of the important nodes for modeling.
But something doesn't click in my mind about which VEX functions or the procedure I need to implement to do something I have in my mind. I lack knowledge about most of the VEX functions + I guess the IQ to come up with a solution by myself.Is it really an IQ problem or an experience one? What do I do? Spam tutorials? Again...
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Anon05/23/25, 14:52No.1012563
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/monolith-soft-says-procedurally-generating-assets-in-xenoblade-chronicles-3-reduced-man-hours-considerably/
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Anon05/27/25, 17:16No.1012751
how retarded of an idea is it to jump into houdini with no prior artistic skills or knowledge of 3d or programming?
even at animation universities it seems to take them 5 years to develop the skillset required, and they do this stuff several hours a day.
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Anon05/28/25, 00:34No.1012781
Why does Houdini still looking like an incomplete software despite being "industry standard"? I mean cheesy and ugly UI, a nightmare licence manager...
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Anon06/09/25, 11:09No.1013379
I think this is the first year in a while where the 3d design stuff coming from Houdini focused studios feels dated and out of touch.
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Anon06/09/25, 17:59No.1013397
What's the future of Houdini? Are they working to counter AI? I saw they had an ML process recently released but it targets specific kinds of animations using your own training data--far from any easy user use.
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Anon06/11/25, 01:27No.1013475
god damn I want to get into houdini for procedual asset making like environment stuff (cliffs, landscapes, rocks etc) but I just struggle to wrap my head around how to do it even following tutorials. I can't even figure out how to export an asset from houdini to blender
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Anon06/15/25, 21:33No.1013683
fun little tip:
if you put a 3@transform matrix on your rbd geo before it goes into the sim, the solver will actually update the attribute for you
came in really handy for instancing back geo onto emitted objects where the emission source was not static
from several million polys down to a single packed geo instanced a few thousand times
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Anon07/07/25, 10:56No.1014842
Does anyone know how to make this pattern in houdini?
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Anon07/13/25, 05:40No.1015125
would anyone be interested in a webrip of houdini-course.com? I can get a torrent up if i can get some seeders
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Anon07/21/25, 05:19No.1015582
Beginner here, any good courses/tutorial where they fully explain how particles simulate and how each node/param/expression affect them? Sometimes when i'm watching tutorial on how to make x they briefly explain about manipulating particles but never fully delve further into that topic
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Anon07/23/25, 07:03No.1015689
Houdini 21 coming in one month
who's hype?
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Anon07/27/25, 19:41No.1015937
>be me
>hear Hoidini is super hard and expensive
>write it off and forget about it for a decade
>be super interested in simulations
>learn blender's geometry nodes and python api and gpu concepts and shader programming basics and C/C++ to add nodes for myself
>lots of fun, get confident
>remember houdini
>try it
> it's all the same shit I've been doing for 5 years, just put together a little better
>everything seems easy just need to learn the UIIs there any money left on the table or is my post-ai arrival to Houdini too late to make any money with it?Still a fun toy either way.
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Anon07/27/25, 21:27No.1015946
I haven't used Houdini in a dog's day. Is the modeling still shit? Is it still crashy?Tbf last time I used it was a pirated version on linux like 15+ years ago lel.
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Anon07/28/25, 12:40No.1015970
Help the beginner out, I've been using unity for like 3 days now. I wanted to copy some nodes from geometry in file A, and paste them into other geometry in file B, can you even do it?
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Anon08/05/25, 08:26No.1016386
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7JQCV51CYIt is once again time to marvel at all the new features you'll never have time to learn.
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Anon08/11/25, 14:16No.1016736
I need some help on the following if anyone might have some ideas:
I'm trying to implement a procedural city tool. The catch is that I try to automate/procedural(ize if that even exists as a word) as much as I can for the following features (so far)
- A terrain generator
- An urban area generator
- Street/lots generatorMy issue is connecting the terrain to the urban area tool, as well as the urban area tool to the streets layout tool (tools = HDA's obviously).
My problem is how much control I lose over my streets layout. I'd like to have some verticality and explore in real time the changes I'll make whenever I feel like it.
So how can I do that?
I thought of either
- Just manage a ton of curves (pain in the ass)
- Feed it an image as an input (much looking like pic related) and create the curves from that (less of a pain in the ass but longer times to edit)But since I'm a total amateur, I feel like there might be another way?
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Anon08/15/25, 05:30No.1016940
I was hoping some Anons here could clarify because Google isn't helping much. But from what I understand, Houdini mostly uses the CPU for simulations, but can use the GPU for some as well. What kinds of simulations are faster and practical on a GPU compared to a CPU? Like yeah, CPU will always be more accurate, but if I can dramatically reduce the time spent simulating I'll take the minor hit to accuracy.
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Anon08/27/25, 16:24No.1017644
aaand we're in
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Anon08/27/25, 19:39No.1017664
Anyone got a 21 keys(crack) yet?
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Anon09/05/25, 16:03No.1018128
Question for you guys. I'm trying to access vertex groups created in Blender (and exported as an .abc) in Houdini. A quick google search said I should be able to find the vertex groups I created in Blender in any group drop-down menu in Houdini, but they're not there. I created this super basic statue with a vertex group on Suzanne's head (the monkey head), but as you can see in the group drop-down menu, the vertex group (which I named MonkeyHead in Blender) is not there.How can I access my vertex groups made in Blender in Houdini?
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Anon09/07/25, 14:52No.1018208
why is Houdini 21 slower than 20.5?
Pyro is slower, axiom too.
MPM is slower
Fluids are the same speed.
WTF?
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Anon10/03/25, 13:45No.1019546
>want recursive list of neighbours of neighbours
>want normalised values starting from the first point
>want to multiply an attribute down using normalised values
>give llms a shot
>gemini pro fails
>claude 4.5 fail
>gpt-5 thinking one shots it
impressed / it's overdidn't even realise you could multiply existing attributes using the setpointattr function.
setpointattrib(0, "width", pt, w, "mult");
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Anon10/09/25, 14:56No.1019885
Still no torrent for Houdini 21?