Hello people.
I'm back with a scene inspired on the maelstrom sequence from Pirates of the Caribbean 3. A giant whirlpool in the middle of the ocean.
It's completely done using Houdini, of course. I used perlin noise for the waves and a chain of noises to create the foam, all in VOPs.
Maybe I will add some elements, I don't know.

Hope you like it

And see it full screen!

Maelstrom

I like it.

Can the whirlpool whirl further - or will it twist and collapse?
Is this just sops?

Georg

looks great! Could briefly describe the method to get this nice foam?

kuba

More light please!
Can't see these sugars!

But I assume, they're great!

Very nice.

Cool! Good job!

good work
I lıke the colour grade

good work!

That looks great! Maybe some spray/mist on top of the water will help to sell the illusion of a vortex? Great stuff nonetheless!

Cheers!
steven

Thank you. Glad you like it


Yes, it is just SOPs. If the whirlpool continues further it would collapse.


Kubabuk, the foam is made connecting various noises i VOPs. You can connect the result of a noise to the position input of other noise node, or add it to the original position, etc. Voronoi, Anti-aliased and Worley worked very well for my scene. In my scene it is also controlled by SOP attributes to determinate the areas of density and fading with the distance.

Kickass! Great job mate!

AMIGO - you scene nice,magic

What did you use for the deformation? Wave/noise CHOPS? Care to enlighten me, as every time I try to deform a grid for an ocean scene, I always get errors.

Great job Miguel!

Sorry for the necro-post!

Perlin noise in SOPs (vex mountain) for the low frequency waves, and a displacement shader made in VOPs using perlin noise and various octaves for the high frequency waves.

hello Miguel

Your ocean is very realistic
I am very basic user houndini:) and learning this software Could you explain me (step by step) how make this ocean in Houndini ? or maybe share this scene:)
Thx

Well... I certanly can't explain it step by step, would bee very difficult, and there are many things you have to discover trying by yourself (this scene is full of those things).
The main thing here is the shader work. To start with oceans I suggest you to look at the Houdini Ocean Toolkit (I didn't use it here), that brings some scenes with an implementation of an ocean shader in VOPs.

thx MIguel

but I don't understand only how you make foam in your ocean. Could you explain only how make foam Vop shader ?

thx and happy christmas

The foam is a layer of noise (well, a chain of noises) added to the basic ocean shader, not a separate one.

Hi everyone,

I revive this thread to show an improvement in the shot. I hope you like it now
I've done it from scratch, actually...

wow, looks create!!!

if yuo add the storm, it would be greater.

Excellent work!

gosh, i would like to see the scene.

Thanks!



Sure, here is it
You won't be able to see the sky image, which I also used as environment map. And the source of the spray file comes from the rop output in the maelstrom geo node.

Don't copy it!

Very nice work
Thanks for the scene file...

Thanks for the scene, awesome learning resource.

one question
i have problem with VEX aanoise and VEx Colarize
it has error - This node is use incomplete asset definition.
this is the frist time that i see this error

Can some one help

Thanks in advanced

Oh yeah, those are custom otl's...
The colorize is just a vop to add cd attribute. The same can be done with a point sop.
And the anti-aliased noise pop is a vop pop that adds 3d anti-aliased noise to the velocity, so it's very simple and just produces noisy motion.

Hey Miguel,

Thanks for sharing the file. You did a great job. I won't copy your file. ;D

cheers

Well, I think here is the final version
I didn't model the ship. It was imported via FBX from Max.

http://www.miguelperezsenent.com/Media/Ani...e_maelstrom.avi

man! it's beautiful, You can add some cloth stuff for ship

Looks really nice, Miguel. Congrats!

Great work man

ha ha, cloth.... and miguel, I'm sure he could add that in his sleep

well done man, looks wonderful

Pure genius, that looks awesome man. Thanks for the hip file also, I'll have a look at that tonight .

oooooh....it´s wonderful I do concur that some secondary animation for the sails would really add to the shot. I have to check this scene as well

Great job Miguel! Well done!

Great work Miguel!

Cheers!
steven

awesome work - keep raising the bar

Thanks Miguel for the hip file, I learn a bunch from the file, one thing I want to ask is the custom node called cuspvalue, of which the content is missing, can you talk a little bit about what it is supposed to do?

Thanks again.

Try this

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?act=at...ost&id=3930