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You're off to a good start, and as previously mentioned, getting a good variation of well-done FX focusing on quality over quantity is a solid approach. If you have classmates that are talented in the other areas such as modeling, animation and compositing, I would definitely recommend teaming up with some of them to pool your individual talents and put together some showreel shots as a group (which will also help show you work well in a shot team which is a critical skill to have in this industry)
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Houdini 17.5 scatter packed primitives viewport display issue
ryew replied to ibotatar's topic in General Houdini Questions
In your viewport Display settings, you can check the Optimize tab's "Culling" settings and try increasing the Scene Polygon Limit and/or some of the other options -
If you post an example .hip file of what you have already attempted to do this, members of the forum will likely help.
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Why not just place box-shaped colliders on either side of the spring geometry to restrict its movement?
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Sorry I don't have time to check your file, but perhaps this tutorial regarding animated vellum constraints from Rohan Dalvi could help if you haven't already seen it
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Vellum Sims On Models With Overlapping Pieces
ryew replied to RyanJP's topic in General Houdini Questions
+1 on both of these points. I have made it a habit to use a convert to poly any time I unpack geometry after experiencing inconsistencies with selection when only unpacking geo. -
Great to hear - best of luck, Marc!
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Useful tricks to know - thanks for sharing your knowledge and work with the community
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Quickest way is just to animate the Activation attribute on your Source Volume node to 0 on the 25th frame or set $FF < 25 in that field
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tree destruction - getting that "bendyness" into it ?
ryew replied to anthonymcgrath's topic in Effects
In case you hadn't already seen it, there was this post recently that mentioned using cone twist constraints for a bending-type effect in splintering wood, perhaps that might help -
Have you considered ramping pscale down with a sop solver for a particular height/region first rather than deleting outright? I don't have time to run a quick test right now, but reducing pscale will break up the fluid surface and possibly give a decent/natural organic result.
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I would suggest getting a basic setup built and then enhancing it from there, rather than trying for a high-complexity solution with no prior groundwork laid out
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I haven't checked your scene, but if you haven't already tried it, check out the POP Awaken DOP; I've used that to successfully wake up sleeping grains particles
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It's difficult to offer suggestions without any real context for scale, motion, settings, etc. but meshing is an issue that's come up on the forums more than once so it's definitely worth searching the forum for related posts that might help. In the meantime, if you have an example setup with lightweight isolated cache frame/sequence you can upload, that would better allow people to offer tweaks and suggestions
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The example file for the POP Curve Force included with Houdini includes a FLIP fluid example; the options on that node can probably get you a lot of the way there
