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Hey guys, I created a simulation in Houdini and wanted to export it to cinema 4D with alembic. It worked completely fine but the Material (Redshift) doesn't stick with the Simulation. As you see in the pictures the half of the simulation gets white and this keeps going until its completely white. I just used the default glass Material and didn't change the geometry. Does anyone know how to fix that?

Hello! I've been using Houdini as a TD for about 2 years now and I just recently got my hands on a C4D and X-Particles license. Playing around with X-Particles it has become apparent that Houdini can make something fairly simple (like particle simulations with constraints) very difficult. For these past 2 years I've been trying to get, specifically, thick liquid like particle constraints (not just viscous but stringy) working in Houdini and I've never been able to get results I can be completely happy with. I've been able to achieve "sticky" effects using vellum grains and vdb meshing before as seen here, however, I was always after a different effect using a particle simulation that was NOT attached to a mesh but still behaved in a similar "sticky" fashion when coming in contact with colliders. After trying this over and over again in Houdini and having unsatisfactory results, I've now experimented with X-Particles and I was a slightly frustrated by all of the time I had spent in Houdini and how simple and quick it was to achieve exactly the effect I wanted in X-Particles. In the video below you can see what effect I was after in XP. I was curious if anyone at all has re-created this stringy liquid effect in Houdini with POPs? It seems clear to me that FLIP fluids are not really the answer for small scale simulations where you want a "stringy" surface tension look. I've gotten close with FLIP and vdb meshing in Houdini, but it never looks as natural and real as X-Particles. I've heard that maybe the POP Fluid node may be the answer (here), but I'm curious if anyone has attempted these stringy constraints in a Houdini project! Any Houdini workflow tips for such an effect would be appreciated because the cost of X-Particles and C4D is not something I plan on paying for the rest of my days!

I have been banging my head on my keyboard for a bit on this one. I have exported an alembic file consisting of an object that bounces up and down. I then export that object to Houdini where I perform a very basic fire simulation on the object. I then export the fire sequence out as a vdb where I import it into Cinema 4D and display the vdb with Octane render. Everything looks great the only problem is the fire object moves faster than the initial object. This should not be possible considering the fire's position is based on the position of the object. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can fix this? *Both alembic, Cinema 4D, and Houdini files are all based on 24 frame rate

Hi! I'm struggeling to create a "Cinema 4D mograph like effect." I have fractured a geo and I want them to rotate based on an effector. I have tried to pack it and or with a for each loop, bt I couldn't get it close to it. Can anyone help with it? Thanks!

Getting random flashes of rectangle geometry after rendering Alembic sequence to disk from Houdini 16.5, see below: Would it help to share all of my FLIP, fluid particle, static object node attributes or is this a familiar problem people have run into before?

Hi guys, I've just done this tutorial [ https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/creating-a-procedural-snowflake/ ] and I wanted to render it on cinema 4d but I couldn't T_T I made it as Houdini digital asset and threw it to c4d, but there was nothing I could see. and when even I send just cube, It worked, but file in that tutorial couldn't be read on c4d houdini engine.... What should I do !?!? Thank you for read.

Hello all, I'm trying to get Motion blur from a flip fluid sim that I Export from houdini and I Import in Cinema 4d. After researching I came to the conclusion that I could probably achieve that with the subframe cache workflow. Can someone please clarify this workflow to me ? thanx, Ioannis.

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Hey Guys, Manuel and I have launched www.entagma.com It is a (growing) collection of things that we'd like to have known when we started diving into advanced CG. Currently we host some Cinema 4D resources as well as introductory tutorials to Houdini. If you have any suggestions or feedback about content or form - please don't hesitate to let us know. Tahnks & Cheers, Mo

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Hi! I'm using houdini engine with cinema 4D. I've got several C4D projects with a hda that read files. When I just click on render, my scene is rendered perfect, but when I added my project to render queue, C4D alerts me that it doesn't found my digital asset and I need to render several projects during the night and I cannot be all the time in front of the computer waiting until one project finished render to click and render the other project. Does anyone knows if there is a way to solve this?? Thanks!!

Hi, I've been creating a series of videos on recreating the Mograph tool set from Cinema 4d in Houdini. Here are the first four videos. Cloner Object Falloff Step Effector Random Effector I'll keep updating this post with more videos as I make them. regards Rohan Dalvi